''Broadway Hostess'' is a 1935 American

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musical film directed by Frank McDonald and starring

Wini Shaw Wini Shaw (c. 1907 – May 2, 1982), sometimes credited as Winifred Shaw, was a 20th century American actress, dancer and singer. Early life She was born as Winifred Lei Momi in about 1907, in San Francisco, California, the youngest of t ...

, Genevieve Tobin and

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. The film was nominated at the 1935

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for the short lived Best Dance Direction category. For which

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was nominated for, along with the film ''

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''.

Plot

Shaw plays a small town girl on her rise to stardom as a night club singer who is nevertheless not as fortunate with love. Pianist Tommy falls for her, even though he suspects she's in love with her manager Lucky. Lucky claims he doesn't want to get married, but is in fact in love with socialite Iris, who brings him into her circle of rich snobs, including her brother, a hot-tempered drunk with a huge

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problem.

Cast

Main

* Winifred Shaw as Winnie * Genevieve Tobin as Iris *

as Lucky * Allen Jenkins as Fishcake * Phil Regan as Tommy * Marie Wilson as Dorothy *

Spring Byington Spring Dell Byington (October 17, 1886 – September 7, 1971) was an American actress. Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of '' December Bride''. She was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player who appeared in ...

as Mrs. Duncan-Griswald-Wembly-Smythe *

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as Big Joe Jarvis * Donald Ross as Ronnie Marvin * Frank Dawson as Morse - Iris' Butler * Harry Seymour as Club Intime Emcee

Uncredited (Incomplete)

* Ward Bond as Lucky's Henchman * Richard Powell as Third Member of Quartet in 'Playboy of Paree' Number * June Travis as Mrs. Bannister * Jack Wise as Nightclub Waiter *

Jane Wyman Jane Wyman ( ; born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007)"Actress, P ...

as a chorus girl

Reviews

Andre Sennwald of ''

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'' gave it a bad review saying it was very clichéd and hard to sit through.

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Broadway Hostess 1935 romantic comedy films 1935 musical comedy films 1935 films American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films American romantic comedy films American romantic musical films Films directed by Frank McDonald Warner Bros. films 1930s American films