Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
La historia comienza en el corazón de la vieja Irlanda, donde Jim O’Connell, un patriota irlandés, se queda solo para cuidar de su hija Margaret, a quien cariñosamente llama “Peg o’ My Heart”, tras la muerte de su amada esposa. Pasan los años. Margaret, ahora una joven ayudando a su padre en la granja, es enviada a Inglaterra para vivir con sus ricos parientes, sin saber que se trata de un plan trazado por su padre y un abogado con el fin de cobrar una herencia.
