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Goodbye Broadway
Goodbye Broadway

Goodbye Broadway

THEY WERE FULL OF FLASH - BUT NEVER FLUSH!

Genres

Comedy

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Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

65 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

01 April 1938

Country

Cast

Alice Brady

Alice Brady

Molly Malloy

Charles Winninger

Charles Winninger

Pat Malloy

Tom Brown

Tom Brown

Chuck Bradford

Dorothea Kent

Dorothea Kent

Jeanne Carlyle

Frank Jenks

Frank Jenks

Harry Clark

Jed Prouty

Jed Prouty

J.A. Higgins

Willie Best

Willie Best

Jughead

Donald Meek

Donald Meek

Iradius P. Oglethorpe

Henry Roquemore

Henry Roquemore

Henry Swanzey

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