Two Tickets to Broadway

One of the first films centered on the new medium of television is also a spirited throwback to '30s musicals all about a determined young miss with stars in her eyes and not much in her wallet who heads to New York in search of fame.
Two Tickets to Broadway
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: September 2, 2011
  • Originally Released: 1951
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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Two tickets to Broadway will take you to...TV! One of the first films centered on the new medium is also a spirited throwback to '30s musicals all about a determined young miss (in this case, Janet Leigh) with stars in her eyes and not much in her wallet who heads to New York in search of fame. Tony Martin, Gloria De Haven, Eddie Bracken and Ann Miller round out the cast of young talents hoping to make it big on the small screen. Busby Berkeley directs the splashy musical numbers; Rodgers and Hart, Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn and more Golden Age composers provide the songs, songs, songs, and vaudeville stars Joe Smith and Charles Dale deliver classic comedy as bickering deli owners.

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Personally supervised by Howard R. Hughes, the RKO Technicolor musical TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY stars Janet Leigh as a small-town girl who hopes to make it big in the Big Apple. Moving into a Manhattan boarding house populated by such showbiz hopefuls as Ann Miller, Tony Martin, Gloria De Haven and Barbara Lawrence, Leigh aspires to appear on the popular TV variety program hosted by bandleader Bob Crosby. Two-bit agent Eddie Bracken promises to make her dreams come true, even though he doesn't know Crosby from Adam. Along the way, Leigh falls for Martin, though the course of true love seldom runs smooth--in fact, at one point it threatens to run all the way back to Leigh's home town. Injecting their time-honored routines into the proceedings are veteran vaudevillians Joe Smith and Charlie Dale, playing a couple of stagestruck deli owners (their roles were originally slated for Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, but Laurel's illness precluded any film work). Despite the creative input of choreographer Busby Berkeley, the film's best number is the simplest: Let's Make Comparisons, wherein Bob Crosby explains why he's not his brother Bing. Seemingly a surefire box-office hit, TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY inexplicably posted a loss of $1,150,000.

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