Walking Down Broadway

Name: Walking Down Broadway
Genre: Drama
Released: 1938-03-11
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Claire Trevor, Phyllis Brooks, Leah Ray

1938
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1h 15m

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5.9/10

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Lynn Bari, Phyllis Brooks, Dixie Dunbar, Leah Ray, Jayne Regan, and Claire Trevor in Walking Down Broadway (1938)

Drama

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.

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IMDb RATING

5.9/10

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Trivia
The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 confirms the participation of both Lon Chaney Jr. and Robert Lowery in this film; both of them were under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox at the time, and can be found in secondary roles in many other films produced at that studio before and after this one. However, they are not to be found in the 16mm 68 minute version which is all that's presently available, and the source of the currently marketed DVD. Since both AFI and Variety clocked the original 1938 release print at 75 minutes, there's a good chance that they're somewhere in those missing seven minutes.

Connections
Featured in The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)

Soundtracks
Good-Bye My Heart (Good Luck to You)
Written by Sidney Clare and Harry Akst

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Featured review

6/10

These reunion agreements seldom work out...

And neither does the one in this film. The 'behind the scenes' look at the life of showgirls and Broadway hopefuls was a hot topic for late 30's films, from Warner's "Gold Diggers' series, to MGM's Stage Door--this doesn't measure up to them, but it's Fox's nice little soap opera-ish drama with some comedy overtones. The story is about six show girls who finish their last performance on New Year's Eve, and sign a promise to meet in one year. The women are Claire Trevor, Phylls Brooks, Lynn Bari, and 3 not so familiar--Leah Ray, Jayne Regan, and Dixie Dunbar.

Each has a type--the one bound for success with a Hollywood offer, the serious one with good sense, the one faithful to her boyfriend, the spacey silly one, the divorcee with a young child, the one who tosses over nice guy for shady gambler. This isn't really an upbeat film, despite some clever patter along the way..in fact, more than one of the women can't make the reunion. It is fast paced (6 women, one year, packed into an hour and 15 minutes...) but watchable melodrama, with Trevor clearly in the lead.