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Goodbye Broadway (1938)

THEY WERE FULL OF FLASH - BUT NEVER FLUSH!

Genre : Comedy

Runtime : 1H 5M

Director : Ray McCarey
Writer : Roy Chanslor, A. Dorian Otvos

Synopsis

Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.

Actors

Alice Brady
Alice Brady
Molly Malloy
Charles Winninger
Charles Winninger
Pat Malloy
Tom Brown
Tom Brown
Chuck Bradford
Dorothea Kent
Dorothea Kent
Jeanne Carlyle
Frank Jenks
Frank Jenks
Harry Clark
Jed Prouty
Jed Prouty
J.A. Higgins
Willie Best
Willie Best
Jughead
Donald Meek
Donald Meek
Iradius P. Oglethorpe
Henry Roquemore
Henry Roquemore
Henry Swanzey

Crews

Ray McCarey
Ray McCarey
Director
Roy Chanslor
Roy Chanslor
Screenplay
A. Dorian Otvos
A. Dorian Otvos
Screenplay
Edmund Grainger
Edmund Grainger
Producer
George Robinson
George Robinson
Director of Photography
Lloyd Ward
Lloyd Ward
Assistant Camera
Dan Fish
Dan Fish
Props
Ed Case
Ed Case
Props
Camille Collins
Camille Collins
Production Secretary
Roland Smith
Roland Smith
Grip
Arthur Gerstle
Arthur Gerstle
Assistant Camera

Posters and backgrounds

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