Main Street to Broadway
Main Street to Broadway | |
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Gene Fowler, Jr. | |
Music by | Ann Ronell |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,350,000[1] |
Box office | $444,000[1] |
Main Street to Broadway is a 1953 American
Tallulah Bankhead is featured in a parody sequence of herself. The list of Broadway luminaries also playing themselves, in smaller cameos, includes Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore (in his last film), Shirley Booth, Louis Calhern, Faye Emerson, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, Lilli Palmer, John Van Druten and Cornel Wilde. Included is New York baseball manager Leo Durocher. Many others are unidentified, such as Vivian Blaine, glimpsed in a theater lobby.
In one scene, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II create a new song, "There's Music in You", then perform it for their friends, with Rodgers at the piano and Hammerstein singing the vocals.[2] Mary Martin is later seen rehearsing the song for director Joshua Logan.
The black-and-white film, which has a running time of 97 minutes, was directed by
Plot
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Reception
According to MGM records, the film earned $416,000 in the US and Canada and only $28,000 elsewhere.[1]
References
- ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ Answers.com