The Broadway Melody

“All talking. All singing. All dancing.”

Why would two vaudeville sisters be sent for by Eddie Kearns (Charles King), a man with a number to stage in Francis Zanfield's Broadway show? Harriet "Hank" Mahoney (Bessie Love) and her sister Queenie (Anita Page) arrive in New York, where Eddie falls for Queenie while a society man named Jock Warriner is already courting her. Harry Beaumont's film, one of the first sound pictures, turns on what each person will give up to stay in the act.