Lullaby of Broadway (film)
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Title card from the trailer
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| Directed by | David Butler |
| Produced by | William Jacobs |
| Written by | Earl Baldwin |
| Starring |
Doris Day Gene Nelson S.Z. Sakall Billy De Wolfe Gladys George Florence Bates Anne Triola |
| Music by | Ray Heindorf |
| Cinematography | Wilfred M. Cline |
| Edited by | Irene Morra |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Release date
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March 26, 1951 |
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Running time
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2,225,000 (US rentals) |
Lullaby of Broadway is a musical romantic comedy film released by Warner Bros. in 1951. It stars Doris Day as Melinda Howard, an entertainer who travels to New York to see her mother, and Gene Nelson as Tom Farnham, a fellow entertainer and Melinda's love interest. Gladys George appears as Jessica Howard, Melinda's alcoholic mother, in addition to S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Florence Bates and Anne Triola.
Songs from the film were released in an album of the same name.
Melinda Howard is an entertainer traveling from England to pay a surprise visit to her mother, Broadway singer Jessica Howard, who lives in New York City. Melinda believes that her mother lives in a mansion, however, Jessica's alcoholism has reduced her to singing in a Greenwich Village saloon, and the mansion actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell and his wife.
The Hubbells' butler, Lefty Mack, and his fiancée, Gloria Davis, the maid, are a down-on-their luck vaudeville team and are good friends of Jessica and have been forwarding her letters to Melinda. Lefty pretends that Jessica has rented the house to the Hubbells while she is on tour, and, when a disappointed Melinda discloses that she has no money, offers her one of the servants' rooms for the night. Lefty promises Melinda that her mother will return home soon, and then informs Jessica of her daughter's arrival. He then suggests that she come to the house the next night when the Hubbells will be giving a party attended by many Broadway performers.
Meanwhile, Adolph has discovered Melinda's presence, and after Lefty explains the situation, agrees to keep Jessica's secret. At the party, Melinda awaits her mother's arrival, and while waiting, sees that one of party guests brought along Tom Farnham, who was on the boat with Melinda and had made a pass at her. He had also kept his profession a secret while on the boat. At the party, he entertains the crowd with a song and dance, as he is the male lead in George Ferndel's newest production, Lullaby of Broadway.
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