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Broadway Serenade

1939, Movie, NR, 111 mins

Broadway Serenade: Review

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Poor but happy couple MacDonald and Ayres lose their jobs entertaining in a small cafe after Ayres blows up at the manager. When Ayres wins a scholarship to study music in Europe, he tries to sell a song to revue producer Morgan in hopes of making enough money to bring wife MacDonald along with him. The dashing financial backer of the show, Hunter, is impressed by MacDonald's vocal abilities; he offers her a spot in the production. Knowing that both opportunities should not be passed up, the lovers separate. While abroad, Ayres becomes certain his wife is seeing other men and immerses himself deeper in his work, creating an operetta that his colleagues agree will be a hit. Back in the US, MacDonald is chosen to star in the new operetta, it's a big hit, and she and Ayres find new happiness together. This hopelessly melodramatic vehicle fails to create any interest in its characters or its over-produced musical numbers. A mish-mash of visual styles during the different numbers adds incoherence to the film. Songs: "Broadway Serenade For Every Lonely Heart" (Herbert Stothart, Edward Ward, Gus Kahn, from Tschaikovsky's "None But The Lonely Heart"), "High Flyin'," "One Look At You" (Stothart, Ward, Bob Wright, Chet Forrest), "Time Changes Everything" (Kahn, Walter Donaldson), "Un Bel Di" (from Puccini's "Madame Butterfly"), "No Time To Argue" (Sigmund Romberg, Kahn), "Italian Street Song" (Victor Herbert, Rida Johnson Young), "Les Filles de Cadiz" (Delibes, De Musset), "Quando M'En Vo" ("Musetta's Waltz" from Puccini's "La Boheme"), "Musical Contract" (Stothart, Ward). leave a comment
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