Lullaby Of Broadway

This flimsy musical suffers from an overabundance of songs (albeit some wonderful ones) at the expense of concentration on its story. Melinda Howard (Doris Day), an aspiring actress, arrives in New York. Unknown to Melinda, her mother, Jessica (Gladys George), is no longer a star on Broadway but a drunken performer in a Village cabaret. Adolph Hubbell (S.Z. Sakall) a rich man who lives in a huge house, keeps Jessica's charade alive when he tells Melinda that he is renting his mansion from her mother. His wife (Florence Bates, in one of her patented battle-axe roles) suspects her husband of having an affair with Melinda, and the situation worsens when Jessica gets t...