Broadway Rhythm

Broadway Rhythm 1944 is an MGM Technicolor musical film. It was produced by Jack Cummings and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film was originally announced as Broadway Melody of 1944 to follow MGMs Broadway Melody films of 1929, 1936, 1938, and 1940. The movie was originally slated to star Eleanor Powell and Gene Kelly but Louis B. Mayer and MGM loaned Kelly out to Columbia to play opposite Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl 1944. The film starred George Murphy who had appeared in Broadway Melody of 1938 and Broadway Melody of 1940. Mayer then replaced Powell with Ginny Simms. Other cast members included Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven, Lena Horne, Nancy Walker, Eddie Rochester Anderson, the Ross Sisters, and Ben Blue, as well as Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra.

The film is very loosely based on the Broadway musical Very Warm for May 1939. However, all the songs from the musical except for All the Things You Are were left out of the film. Some of the songs from the movie are by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II

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