A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
Rosalie Lawrence, a dancing star on Broadway, falls for rich Hugh Thompson. His parents disapprove and want him to marry Barbara Royce, so he and Rosalie marry secretly. However, Hugh isn't quite the man he seems, as Rosalie is soon to find out.
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully only to meet him later in the boxing ring in New York City. Ambition has swept him to Broadway, but the search for love brings him back to the Main Street of his home town.
La storia è quella di due sorelle, Hank e Queenie Mahoney, che vogliono sfondare a Broadway come ballerine e per questo si fanno aiutare dal fidanzato di Hank, il cantante e ballerino Eddie Kerns, che però mostra evidenti attenzioni per la sorella della sua ragazza. Questa però si lascia abbindolare da un milionario approfittatore che ha conosciuto dietro le quinte del palcoscenico dove ha riscosso grande successo come sostituta di una delle soubrette principali. Alla fine Queenie si accorgerà del vero amore che ha Eddie nei suoi confronti e Hank accetterà la situazione con serenità.
Franco è un giovane regista che finalmente ha la possibilità di realizzare un film grazie a un produttore senza scrupoli quale è Ravelli. Anna è una donna ancora piacente che, assieme al suo particolare maggiordomo Raffaele, decide di affittare la sua villa alla produzione. Andrea è l'aiuto regista che fa innamorare il povero scenografo Paolo per poi far finta di niente e cercare di scavalcare l'amico Franco. Tutte queste stori
Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.
In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil ensues.
An all-dog cast (with human voiceovers) recreates famous scenes from early musical films, particularly The Broadway Melody. The finale is a chorus line of dogs performing "Singing in the Rain" spoofing Cliff Edwards' original version of the song in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. Also spoofed is Al Jolson's performance of "Mammy" in The Jazz Singer.
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.
A carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Broadway revue under the auspices of an impresario (Morgan).
Un impresario di Broadway sta preparando un nuovo musical, ma stenta a sopportare i capricci della primadonna che tra l'altro è l'amante del finanziatore dello spettacolo. Poi la diva si rompe una gamba e una ragazza del coro viene chiamata a sostituirla...
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.
A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.
L'attricetta Eva Lovelace vuole avere successo a tutti i costi. Dopo un esordio tutt'altro che positivo (si ubriaca a un ricevimento e inizia a recitare brani di Amleto suscitando l'ilarità generale), capisce che deve darsi da fare per realizzare il suo sogno: inizia così a lavorare in teatro, sbrigando anche le faccende più umili, e intanto impara la parte da protagonista della pièce che sta per andare in scena. Proprio la sera del debutto, le viene chiesto di sostituire la prima attrice.
Newlywed carnival performers decide to try their luck in New York, but their marriage begins to crumble when their careers take separate paths.
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
In this Broadway Brevity short, a soda jerk/songwriter dreams (literally) of performing his songs on Broadway.