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Broadway Babies

1929 · 86 min · Director: Mervyn LeRoy ★ IMDb 6.1 · 271 ratings

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Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.

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Broadway Babies (1929) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Love 30%, Sadness 25%, Nostalgia 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Love30%
  2. Humor10%

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The strongest emotional signals are Love, Sadness, Nostalgia. Genres: Drama, Music. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Love, Sadness and Nostalgia. Its IMDb rating of 6.1/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 64/100.

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Cast

AW
Alice White

MB
Marion Byron

SE
Sally Eilers

SE
Sally Eilers

Navarre King

CD
Charles Delaney

BR
Bodil Rosing

MB
Maurice Black

MB
Maurice Black

Nick Stepanos

FK
Fred Kohler

FK
Fred Kohler

Perc Gessant

LN
Louis Natheaux

JL
Jocelyn Lee

LH
Lew Harvey

Joe - One of the Poker Players

AH
Aggie Herring

Landlady

AH
Al Hill

One of Perc's Henchmen

AK
Armand Kaliz

Tony Ginetti - the Nightclub Manager

GN
George Nardelli

Club Patron

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Fred Warren

Boarder with Newspaper

Details

Directed by
Mervyn LeRoy
Written by
Jay Gelzer, Monte M. Katterjohn
Type
Movies
Released
1929
Runtime
86 min
Country
United States of America
Genres
Drama, Music
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.1 · 271 ratings
Feels mostly
Love
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