Broadway Babies

Broadway Babies, aka Broadway Daddies UK and Ragazze dAmerica Italy, is a 1929 alltalking precode black and white American musical film produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. The film was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starred Alice White and Charles Delaney. This was Whites first sound film with dialogue.

Broadway Babies was one of the many movie musicals with a Broadway setting that were made at the dawn of the talkie era. Such films were called backstagers, a vogue that evolved during the emergence of sound pictures and from the success of The Jazz Singer 1927 and The Singing Fool 1928, both also Warner Bros. films. Broadway Babies was also one of a number of similar vehicles created for Alice White it was Whites first allsound as well as her most successful picture.Three songs were written for White to perform in Broadway Babies Wishing and Waiting for Love with lyrics by Grant Clarke and music by Harry Akst Jig, Jig, Jigaloo, lyrics by Al Bryan, music by George W. Meyer and Broadway Baby Dolls, also by Bryan and Meyer. Incidental music included Give My Regards to Broadway George M. Cohan, Vesti La Giubba Ruggero Leoncavallo, and Bridal Chorus Here Comes the Bride Richard Wagner. ........

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