Goodbye Broadway
Cast & Crew
Ray Mccarey
Alice Brady
Charles Winninger
Tom Brown
Dorothea Kent
Frank Jenks
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Synopsis
Married veteran vaudeville team Molly and Pat Malloy, who have been together twenty years, want to quit the stage and settle down in the country. While performing in Hampton, a small town in Connecticut, Harry Clark, a clerk in the ramshackle Swanzey hotel, insults Pat, and when Pat sees that the hotel is for sale, he buys it for $4,000 just so he can fire the clerk. Pat then learns that skinflint realtor J. A. Higgins wants to buy the hotel, but is unaware that the state is after it because it is a historical landmark. Finding Pat unwilling to sell the hotel "for a song," Higgins places an ad in Var announcing that Pat will entertain old friends free of charge. The hotel is nearly empty until the Malloys' penniless vaudeville friends visit from New York. Higgins, meanwhile, tries to buy the hotel before the state legislature passes a bill that will guarantee the state a good price. The only paying guest is an eccentric antiquarian named Iradius P. Oglethorpe, who informs Pat that the hotel is furnished with invaluable antiques dating back to the time of George Washington. Pat, excited, turns down a big offer from Higgins, but when he tries to cash in on the antiques, he learns they are worthless. Jeanne Carlyle, a loyal vaudevillian, convinces Molly and Pat, at her boyfriend Chuck Bradford's suggestion, to host a benefit performance. However, they sell out the house only to find out that all their actor friends have suddenly left town. Higgins eventually buys the hotel for $20,000, but nearly expires when he finds out the furniture is worthless and the state legislature has decided not to take over the hotel. Oglethorpe, meanwhile, turns out to be an escaped inmate from an asylum. After receiving a wire from a booking agent promising them a ten-week engagement on the "big time circuit," Molly and Pat return to vaudeville with their unexpected profit.
Director
Ray Mccarey
Cast
Alice Brady
Charles Winninger
Tom Brown
Dorothea Kent
Frank Jenks
Jed Prouty
Willie Best
Donald Meek
Henry Roquemore
Del Henderson
Tommy Riggs
Jack Daley
Rollo Lloyd
Charles Sullivan
Steve Strelich
Virginia Howell
Mary Brodel
Jerry Pena
Roy Dove
Harry C. Johnson
Henry C. Johnson
Jack Starry
Paul Brachard
Walter Pate
Gene Smith
Dick Gerald
Charl Clarke
Adeline Clarke
Althea Clarke
Catharine Clarke
Edward Gargan
Edgar Dearing
Julius Tannen
Kitty Mchugh
Armand "curly" Wright
D'arcy Corrigan
Fern Emmett
Betty Mack
Harry Bernard
Paul Parry
Charles Murphy
Ben Lewis
Florence Dudley
Brooks Benedict
Lawrence Wagner
C. Ring
Howard Christie
K. Lewis
C. Sommers
Crew
Bernard B. Brown
Everett Brown
Ed. Case
Roy Chanslor
Harry Clark
Sherman Clark
Charles [h.] Clarke
Camille Collins
Ciel Duncan
Dan Fish
Fred Frank
Arthur Gerstle
Edmund Grainger
William Hedgcock
Moree Herring
K. Holderman
Brown Holmes
Alan Jones
John Kemp
M. Mathieson
Harry Moran
James Mulhauser
Jack Otterson
A. Dorian Otvos
H. Park
Charles Previn
M. Ray
Richard H. Riedel
George Robinson
Ross Saxon
C. Shaille
Frank Skinner
R. Smith
Lloyd Ward
Seward Webb
Adolph Winninger
Maurice Wright
Ed Zimmer
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This film's working titles were Shannons of Broadway and The Thing Is the Play. An earlier film based on the same source was a 1929 Universal film The Shannons of Broadway, directed by Emmett J. Flynn and starring James Gleason and Lucille Webster Gleason (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.4961). Radio star Tommy Riggs, of the Rudy Valee radio program, performs his "Voice of Betty Lou" ventriloquism act, in which he uses no dummy, in this film.
