Goodbye Broadway

Goodbye Broadway

10.0IMDb Score
Released:1938-04-01
Genre:Comedy
Duration:65 min
Country:
Director:Ray McCarey
Actors:Alice Brady, Charles Winninger, Tom Brown, Dorothea Kent, Frank Jenks
Production:Universal Pictures

Overview:

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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