Goodbye Broadway is a 1938 American comedy film. The movie is based on the play The Shannons of Broadway written by actor (and ex-vaudevillian) James Gleason. A previous film had been made of the play entitled The Shannons of Broadway.

Plot

Molly and Pat Malloy, a married couple of famed vaudeville performers on the verge of retirement, arrive in a small Connecticut town to play a show, When they're insulted by the clerk of the shabby local hotel, the Malloys buy the hotel just for the satisfaction of firing him. But this aggravates the local realtor who's had his eye on the property. For revenge, the realtor places an ad in Variety that the Malloys are providing free room and board for any of their eccentric old vaudeville friends who might show up. Many do.

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Cast

Alice Brady as Molly Malloy

Charles Winninger as Pat Malloy

Tom Brown as Chuck Bradford

Dorothea Kent as Jeanne Carlyle

Frank Jenks as Harry Clark

Jed Prouty as J.A. Higgins

Willie Best as Jughead

Donald Meek as Iradius P. Oglethorpe

Henry Roquemore as Henry Swanzey

Dell Henderson as Cromwell

unbilled players include Fern Emmett and Edward Gargan

External links

Turner Classic Movies page

1938 films

Films directed by Ray McCarey

Universal Pictures films

1938 comedy films

American comedy films

American black-and-white films

American films based on plays

1930s American films

Goodbye Broadway