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Broadway Gondolier

  • 19351935
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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Joan Blondell, Louise Fazenda, Adolphe Menjou, Donald Mills, Harry Mills, Herbert Mills, John Mills, Dick Powell, and The Mills Brothers in Broadway Gondolier (1935)
ComedyMusicalRomance
Dick Purcell is an American taxi driver who wants to become a singer promoting cheese products. Oddly he thinks the way to do it is to become a gondolier from Venice. Along the way he sings ... Read allDick Purcell is an American taxi driver who wants to become a singer promoting cheese products. Oddly he thinks the way to do it is to become a gondolier from Venice. Along the way he sings and woos a sassy secretary Alice.Dick Purcell is an American taxi driver who wants to become a singer promoting cheese products. Oddly he thinks the way to do it is to become a gondolier from Venice. Along the way he sings and woos a sassy secretary Alice.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
274
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    • Lloyd Bacon
  • Writers
    • Sig Herzig(story)
    • E.Y. Harburg(story)
    • Hanns Kräly(story)
  • Stars
    • Dick Powell
    • Joan Blondell
    • Adolphe Menjou
    • Lloyd Bacon
  • Writers
    • Sig Herzig(story)
    • E.Y. Harburg(story)
    • Hanns Kräly(story)
  • Stars
    • Dick Powell
    • Joan Blondell
    • Adolphe Menjou
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    • 12User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Joan Blondell and Dick Powell in Broadway Gondolier (1935)
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    Joan Blondell and Grant Mitchell in Broadway Gondolier (1935)
    Joan Blondell in Broadway Gondolier (1935)
    Dick Powell in Broadway Gondolier (1935)
    Donald Mills, Harry Mills, Herbert Mills, John Mills, Dick Powell, and The Mills Brothers in Broadway Gondolier (1935)
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    Dick Powell in Broadway Gondolier (1935)
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    Dick Powell
    Dick Powell
    • Richard 'Dick' Purcell, aka Ricardo Purcelli
    Joan Blondell
    Joan Blondell
    • Alice Hughes
    Adolphe Menjou
    Adolphe Menjou
    • Professor Eduardo de Vinci
    Louise Fazenda
    Louise Fazenda
    • Mrs. Flaggenheim
    William Gargan
    William Gargan
    • Cliff Stanley
    George Barbier
    George Barbier
    • Music Critic Hayward
    Grant Mitchell
    Grant Mitchell
    • E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
    Ted Fio Rito
    Ted Fio Rito
    • Ted Fio Roto - Orchestra Leader
    • (as himself)
    The Mills Brothers
    The Mills Brothers
    • The Four Mills Brothers
    • (as The Four Mills Brothers)
    Donald Mills
    Donald Mills
    • Member of the Mills Brothers
    Harry Mills
    Harry Mills
    • Member of the Mills Brothers
    Herbert Mills
    • Member of the Mills Brothers
    John Mills
    • Member of the Mills Brothers
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    • Music Critic Gilmore
    Joe Sawyer
    Joe Sawyer
    • 'Red'
    • (as Joseph Sauers)
    Rafael Alcayde
    Rafael Alcayde
    • Ramon
    • (as Rafael Storm)
    Bob Murphy
    • Singing Traffic Cop
    James Burke
    James Burke
    • Uncle Andy
      • Lloyd Bacon
    • Writers
      • Sig Herzig(story) (screenplay)
      • E.Y. Harburg(story)
      • Hanns Kräly(story)
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      Two of Joan Blondell's real-life husbands were involved in this film. Her first husband, cinematographer George Barnes, photographed it. Her second husband, Dick Powell, was her co-star.
    • Goofs
      Adolphe Menjou, playing an Italian twice tells Dick Powell that he will sing at "the La Scala" opera house. No Italian (and quite a lot of non-Italians) would make this obvious mistake: Since "la" means "the," he is saying "the the Scala."
    • Quotes

      Alice Hughes: People don't marry crooners. They only divorce them.

    • Connections
      Referenced in The Black Network (1936)
    • Soundtracks
      Flagenheim's Odorless Cheese
      (1935) (uncredited)

      Music by Harry Warren

      Lyrics by Al Dubin

      Sung by Harry Seymour on the radio show

      Reprised by Dick Powell and Joan Blondell

      Reprised by Sam Ash three times on the radio show

    User reviews12

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    Beware of all the above NEGATIVE Reviews here !!!
    I saw this film in 1959 on late night Television at age 14. It left a very favorable and lasting impression with me. I only discovered today day via the Internet, the actual title was "BROADWAY GONDOLIER". I can remember seeing Dick Powell as a gondolier, singing pleasant music and what did I know of the movies at the age of 14 years? Virtually zero at that age! I remember my laughing a lot through this film, if you folks reading this posting have recently seen this very enjoyable Musical Comedy entertainment count yourselves very lucky indeed. As far as I am concerned, I indeed envy your good fortune. It is currently Un-Available on DVD, I suspect it has never been released to Home-Video. We are lucky that the Warner Brothers made such a generally enjoyable entertainment for us at the time of the "Mid-Point of the Great Depression" in 1935. I am sure audiences were wanting to escape their financial woes during the time of this film's release, and that Movie Stars in general would have been living the "High-Life" in comparison to the average person in the street. Irrespective whether Dick Powell was pleading for stronger movie roles, only passing time and film Historians have revealed these facts to us... I have been wanting to get a copy of this film, and I am hoping the Warner Archive will release it on DVD before much longer. I disagree with all the "Negative" reviews posted here on IMDb about this film and many other films. Going to the Movies is like taking a ride in a car, you either want to be on the journey or you do not. A lot of present day audiences are prejudiced against seeing "Black-and-White" movies and many have told me so. Dear reader, if you get the opportunity to view this Black-and-White Film, you need to realize one finer point of movie production in the 1930's and through to the 1950's... And that is that Black-and-White films were made on Nitrate Film Stock using Fine-Grain Silver-Salts to produce real intense Blacks and many Shades of Grey through to Zero-Silver-Salts giving Dazzling White Light from the Carbon-Arc Projector-Lamp-Houses on the Cinema Screens of that time. And unless you are seeing an original 35mm Black-and-White "Original" Nitrate Print struck from the original Camera Negative being projected from a Carbon-Arc Lamp-House, you will usually be seeing the Movie from an Old-16mm-Print (from a Television Station ) using Low-Contrast copies, and you are not seeing the film that audiences were viewing at the time of the Original Release, even during the Great Depression. Later in my life, I was employed as Cinema Projectionist ( for over 30 years ) and I recall my mentor revealing to me that in his youth, he was employed as a junior to soak the Nitrate 35mm Movie prints in a bath tub, and his job was to recover the SILVER-SALTS from the Film-Stock, and the Film Exchanges recovered the actual SILVER from the prints, bringing in a great deal of money as a consequence. This was revealed to me by a Chief Projectionist who had worked in Cinemas and Overseas in the Armed Services as Projectionist during World War 2. Dear reader, I hope you are now, a little better informed, that you are not seeing "Black-and-White" films these days ( in the year 2017 ) as they were Originally presented to audiences during the Golden Years of Cinema in the 1930's and the 1940's, but you are seeing a mere facsimile of what was Originally presented during those Golden years. And back then, and in my time in Cinemas, we took care and were proud of the way we presented each and every motion picture to the Cinema-going public, I am proud to claim to you dear reader I was a "Show-Man"...Please to all fellow reviewers, please no more nasty comments... and to you dear reader, Thank You...
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    • Release date
      • July 27, 1935 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    • 1 hour 39 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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