Broadway Bill
The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'
Rating: 6.0 out of 10TMDB(22 votes)
Overview
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
Fun facts
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Box office
Grossed $1.4M worldwide, about 2.1 times its $669K budget
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Joseph Walker
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Robert RiskinScreenplay
- Mark HellingerStory
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 30, 1934
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $668.9K
- Revenue
- $1.4M
- Countries
- United States of America
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Cast
Warner BaxterDan Brooks
Myrna LoyAlice 'Princess' Higgins
Walter ConnollyJ.L. Higgins
Helen VinsonMargaret
Douglass DumbrilleEddie Morgan
Raymond WalburnColonel Pettigrew
Lynne OvermanHappy McGuire
Clarence MuseWhitey- Broadway BillBroadway Bill - a Horse
Margaret HamiltonEdna
Frankie DarroTed Williams
George CooperJoe
George MeekerHenry Early
Jason Robards Sr.Arthur Winslow- Ed TuckerJimmy Baker
Edmund BreesePresiding Judge
Clara BlandickMrs. Peterson
Irving BaconHamburger Stand Owner (uncredited)
Lucille BallBlonde Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Stanley BlystoneJailer (uncredited)
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