Lullaby of Broadway (1951)

C'mon and listen to songbird Doris Day heads toward Great White Way stardom in this sparkling songfest full of favorite standards co-starring Gene Nelson. Year: 1950 Director: David Butler Starring: Doris Day Gene Nelson Gladys GeorgeRunning Time: 92 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS/MUSICALS UPC: 012569683518 Product Description

"It's a small uncomfortable world, isn't it?"

Come along and listen to...Doris Day sing...the lullaby of Broadway!

I just got this movie and I'm glad I did! I have never seen a Doris Day musical that I didn't like!
Doris Day plays Melinda Howard, an aspiring actress, who comes to the states to see her supposedly famous mother, Jessica Howard. However she doesn't realize that she is no longer the Broadway star she was and is just singing in dumpy cafes. She shows up at the address that her mother put on all the letters and finds out it is being rented by S.Z. Sakall, a Broadway producer. He be-friends her for her mother's sake and finds out that she is a great actress. He puts her in the show he is producing with Tom Farnum (Gene Nelson), a talented dancer, whom she had previously met on the boat to the states, and the two of them fall in love. However when she finds out about her Mother, she decides to sail for England again, thinking that her Mother doesn't want to see her. But her Mother clears all misunderstandings up right before Melinda sails and she gets back just in time for the opening night of her new show.

March 25, 2008

LULLEBY OF BROADWAY

VERY GOOD PURCHASE, ARRIVED ON TIME AND IN GREAT SHAPE

WOULD BUY ADDITIONAL ITEMS FROM THIS SELLER. GREAT PERFORMANCE BY DORIS DAY. DORIS DAY COULD NOT GIVE A BAD PERFORMANCE. December 30, 2007

Doris Day in a high-stepping musical feast!

C'mon along and join Doris Day and a top supporting cast in a high-stepping musical feast - the infectious LULLABY OF BROADWAY!

Melinda Howard (Doris Day) a young up-and-coming musical star, has just arrived back in New York, totally unaware that her mother Jessica (Gladys George), once the biggest star on Broadway, is now singing in a dingy tavern. The mansion which Jessica used to own has now been taken over by a rich brewery magnate and his wife (S.Z. Sakall and Florence Bates).

Old-time vaudevilians Lefty and Gloria (Billy DeWolfe and Anne Triola), now the butler and maid of the house, take Melinda under their wing and uphold the ruse that Jessica is just 'out of town'...

Complications arise when Melinda finds herself on the cusp of Broadway fame, just as Jessica's cover is blown! Gene Nelson co-stars as the brash and confident dancer who falls in love with Melinda.

Doris Day as usual gives her all in the lead role. Gladys George was a perfect casting choice for Melinda's washed-up alcoholic mother and Florence Bates is fun in one of her trademark 'society matron' roles. Billy DeWolfe, S.Z. Sakall and Gene Nelson would go on to co-star with Doris Day again in the successful TEA FOR TWO (both movies were made and released in the same year and were big box office drawcards for Warners).

A top Hollywood musical. April 2, 2005

Watching this is beginning to be a habit with me!!

Doris Day is my all time favorite
actress.
Her wonderful dancing, her beautiful voice, and her spectacular acting talent!
This movie is about Melinda Howard (Day) she is coming over on a boat to New York to suprise her mother who is supposed to be famous on broadway and who she hasn't seen in years. On the boat, she meets Tom Farnam who starts playing up the minute he sees her. But she gives him the brush off.
So, she forgets about him, and arrives in New York.
However when she comes to the fancy house that her mother puts on all her letters, she is suprised to find a strange man (Cuddles) and his wife living there. And the butler sure is suprised when she comes bursting in asking for her mother!
But suddenly, the butler (Billy Dewolfe), realizes who the girl is. Because you see, the butler Lefty, is a friend of her mother, who WAS famous on broadway,but really, now, is tough on luck, and sings at a bar! Both her and Lefty, have done everythong in there power to keep this news from Melinda, and our doing a swell job of it.
They merely tell her that she has rented the house, and is on tour. Which she believes.
So, she decides to wait. After all, she says, I haven't saved up all this money to come to just leave!
So she waits.
And who enters the picture again? Tom Farnam (Gene Nelson).
And soon he and Day fall in love.
But not without troubles, which I will not spoil for you!
This movie includes wonderful dance sequences by Day and Nelson.
Also splendid songs. Overall, this is a wonderful movie, and I recommend it highly!! December 29, 2004

The penny says, "In God We Trust".

She's a singer and a tap-dancer. Doris Day does it all. She is an entertainer aboard a cruise ship. She's come back to the United States to visit her mother. Her mother is also a singer, but in a nightclub. What Doris does not know, her mother no longer has the New York house and she is no longer a well-known Broadway star. She is too ashamed to see her daughter the way her life has turned. Very nice musical! Tunes include: "Lullaby of Broadway", "In a Shanty In Old Shanty Town", "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart", "Somebody Loves Me", "I Love The Way You Say Goodnight".
Also in the cast: Billy DeWolfe (one of Doris' closest friends), Gladys George, Florence Bates and Anne Triola.
Best line: Doris gives Gene Nelson a gift. She says that there is a message on there for you. It's a 1949 penny that says atop, "In God We Trust".
Awesome mechanical dolls number. June 2, 2004

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