Comet Over Broadway

Comet over Broadway 1938 is an American film starring Kay Francis and released by Warner Brothers. John Farrow stepped in as director when Busby Berkeley became ill, but Farrow was uncredited on the film.

Later, Eve is forced to leave her baby girl with her friend Mrs. Tim Adams Gombell. Bert Ballin Hunter befriends her and they fall in love, but she moves abroad and becomes a star. Back in America, as the Toast of Broadway, she is brought back to a realization of her former vows by Joe Grant Crisp, her hometown lawyer.Following Jezebel, Bette Davis was dismayed to be assigned to Comet Over Broadway, a melodrama in which she would portray a Broadway actress who sacrifices her career to care for her neerdowell husband when he is released from prison. This was the first nothing script I was given since my court battle in England, Davis later recalled, referring to the lawsuit in which she tried to win her freedom from Warner Bros. after being forced to appear in a series of mediocre films. ........

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