Lullaby of Broadway (film)

Lullaby of Broadway is a musical romantic comedy film released by Warner Bros. in 1951. It starred Doris Day as Melinda Howard, an entertainer who travels to New York to see her mother, and Gene Nelson as Tom Farnham, a fellow entertainer and Melindas love interest. Gladys George appears as Jessica Howard, Melindas alcoholic mother, in addition to S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Florence Bates and Anne Triola.

Melinda Howard is an entertainer traveling from England to pay a surprise visit to her mother, Broadway singer Jessica Howard, who lives in New York City. Melinda believes that her mother lives in a mansion, however, Jessicas alcoholism has reduced her to singing in a Greenwich Village saloon, and the mansion actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell and his wife.The Hubbells butler, Lefty Mack, and his fiance, Gloria Davis, the maid, are a downontheir luck vaudeville team and are good friends of Jessica and have been forwarding her letters to Melinda. Lefty pretends that Jessica has rented the house to the Hubbells while she is on tour, and, when a disappointed Melinda discloses that she has no money, offers her one of the servants rooms for the night. Lefty promises Melinda that her mother will return home soon, and then informs Jessica of her daughters arrival. He then suggests that she come to the house the next night when the Hubbells will be giving a party attended by many Broadway performers. ........

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