''Broadway's Like That'' (1929) is a 10-minute

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starring

Ruth Etting Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singer and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Known as "America's sweetheart of song", her signature tunes ...

, with

Joan Blondell Joan Blondell (born Rose Joan Bluestein; August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years. Blondell began her career in vaudeville. After winning a beauty pageant, she embarked on ...

, Humphrey Bogart and

Mary Philips Mary Philips (January 23, 1901April 22, 1975) was an American stage and film actress. Biography The only child of Charles and Anna (née Hurley) Philips of New Haven, Connecticut, Philips was born in New London, Connecticut, and she was ed ...

. Bogart and Philips were married at the time of this film.Internet Movie Database
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Plot summary

A girl who works in a music store is to be married that evening, but her fiancé tells her their marriage must be postponed. As she is dressing for a New Year's Eve party she is interrupted by a visitor — the wife of the man she had planned to marry.

Production

''Broadway's Like That'' (Vitaphone No. 960) was filmed in New York and released in December 1929. Ruth Etting stars with Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart and Mary Phillips. Etting's songs include "From the Bottom of My Heart" and "Right Kind of Man", by L. Wolfe Gilbert and

Abel Baer Abel Baer (March 16, 1893 – October 5, 1976) was an American songwriter, associated with Tin Pan Alley. Biography Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Baer graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, specialising in dentistry. Baer left ...

Film preservation

The Vitaphone disc

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for this film is lost, only a sound print of the film survives, which was re-discovered by

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in 1963.

References

External links

''Broadway's Like That'' at IMDB
1929 films American short films Vitaphone short films Warner Bros. short films American black-and-white films {{short-film-stub