--- title: 'The Broadway Melody (1929)' type: 'film' director: 'Harry Beaumont' released: '1929-01-01' runtime_minutes: 110 genres: - 'Music' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-broadway-melody-1929' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019729/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Broadway Melody (1929) 1929 · 110 min · Music, Romance · United States ## Synopsis The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the early musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. ## Credits - **Director:** [Harry Beaumont](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-beaumont) - **Screenplay:** [Edmund Goulding](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-goulding), [James Gleason](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-gleason) - **Original Music Composer:** [George M. Cohan](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-m-cohan), [Nacio Herb Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/nacio-herb-brown), [Willard Robison](https://cinepixo.com/people/willard-robison) - **Producer:** [Irving Thalberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-thalberg), [Lawrence Weingarten](https://cinepixo.com/people/lawrence-weingarten) - **Director of Photography:** [John Arnold](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-arnold) - **Editor:** [Sam Zimbalist](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-zimbalist), [William LeVanway](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-levanway) ## Cast - [Anita Page](https://cinepixo.com/people/anita-page) - [Charles King](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-king-2) - [Edward Dillon](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-dillon) - [Bessie Love](https://cinepixo.com/people/bessie-love) - [Kenneth Thomson](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-thomson) - [Carla Laemmle](https://cinepixo.com/people/carla-laemmle) - [Jed Prouty](https://cinepixo.com/people/jed-prouty) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-broadway-melody-1929 Film facts: Wikidata (Q463620); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.