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Director: Norman Taurog
Genres: Musical Drama, Showbiz Drama, Backstage Musical, Musical
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Summary:
MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a clothesline upon which to hang sleek and opulent musical production numbers by Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell -- particularly a breathless and eye-popping gloriously black-and-white six-minute tap dance finale between Astaire and Powell to Cole Porter}... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Fred Astaire - (Johnny Brett)
Eleanor Powell - (Clara Bennett)
George Murphy - (King Shaw)
Frank Morgan - (Bob Casey)
Ian Hunter - (Bert C. Matthews)
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Review:
Broadway Melody of 1940 proves that a musical can be first-rate entertainment even with a script that is, to put it politely, "familiar." Ideally, of course, one wishes to have a story that is fresh, a screenplay that is literate and witty, and characters that surprise one with their doings. Melody offers none of this, and by all rights sh... Continue >>

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