Broadway Melody of 1940 (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell (performers) (excerpts) (1940)
Subject
Swing (Dance)
Musicals
URL
Trailer
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Begin the Beguine
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Operatic hilarious performance
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Description
Content Description from Wikipedia.org (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Melody_of_1940):
Johnny Brett (Fred Astaire) and King Shaw (George Murphy) are a dance team so down on their luck that they work in a dance hall for no money. Meanwhile, Clare Bennett (Eleanor Powell) is a big Broadway star. Owing to a case of mistaken identity, Shaw is offered the chance to be Clare's dancing partner in a new Broadway show, when it was really Johnny's dancing that producer Bob Casey (Frank Morgan) saw and wanted. The partnership breaks up, but Johnny still helps out King, who lets his newfound success go to his head. Clare eventually realizes that Johnny, not King, is the better dancer, and she falls in love after having lunch with him. When Shaw gets drunk on opening night, Johnny steps in and saves the show with a brilliant performance, though he lets King think he did it himself. Clare later tells King the truth. Just before the next show, Clare discovers King drunk again, and Johnny becomes the permanent replacement. After the show, they find out that King was pretending to be drunk so that Johnny would get the job.
Ephemera: text saved from original ephemera. Small clipping from program guide. Broadway Melody of 1940. Friendship and rivalry between dance partners sparks this delightful musical, highlighted by outstanding Cole Porter tunes. Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy star. Handwritten: Under Cover August 1985.
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Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
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Description
Content description from IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035320):
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved. The enemy agents got the plan from a pulp novel written by Kibble, who is also on the ship and falls for her. But then she overhears his new novel and believes that he is talking about her. So when they leave the boat, she ignores him, but somehow, the bags get switched and he gets the magnetic mine - which she must later retrieve. It is mainly a Tommy Dorsey showcase with Sinatra singing - Powell dancing - and a small plot.
Ephemera: text saved from original ephemera. Small clipping from program guide: Ship Ahoy--1942. Musical-comedy Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr. Writer on cruise believes star dancer is aiding the enemy, but she is really a government spy. March 23 12:10 a.m.
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Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Edward Buzzell (director)
Matt Brooks, Bradford Ropes, Bert Kalmar, Harry Clork, Irving Brecher, and Harry Kurnitz (writers)
Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, and Bert Lahr (performers)