The Royal Family of Broadway
1930 film
- December 22, 1930 (1930-12-22) (U.S.)
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The Royal Family of Broadway is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by George Cukor and Cyril Gardner and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was adapted by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Gertrude Purcell from the 1927 play The Royal Family by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman. It stars Ina Claire, Fredric March, Mary Brian, Henrietta Crosman, Arnold Korff, and Frank Conroy. It was shot at the Astoria Studios in New York.
The film tells the story of a girl from a family of great Broadway actors who contemplates leaving show business and getting married. The characters are loosely based on the first American theatrical family, the Barrymores. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor (Fredric March).[1]
A 35mm nitrate print of The Royal Family of Broadway was preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 1985. The film has not been released on DVD or Blu-Ray. Copyright is held by Universal / MCA.
Cast
- Ina Claire as Julie Cavendish
- Fredric March as Tony Cavendish
- Mary Brian as Gwen Cavendish
- Henrietta Crosman as Fanny Cavendish
- Charles Starrett as Perry
- Arnold Korff as Oscar Wolfe
- Frank Conroy as Gilmore Marshall
- Royal C. Stout as Joe
- Elsie Esmond as Della
- Murray Alper as McDermott
- Herschel Mayall as Doctor
- Lucile Watson as Actress Backstage (uncredited)
References
- ^ "The 4th Academy Awards (1931) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on October 10, 2014. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
External links
- The Royal Family of Broadway at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
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Films directed by George Cukor
- Grumpy (1930)
- The Virtuous Sin (1930)
- The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
- Tarnished Lady (1931)
- Girls About Town (1931)
- What Price Hollywood? (1932)
- A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
- Rockabye (1932)
- Our Betters (1933)
- Dinner at Eight (1933)
- Little Women (1933)
- David Copperfield (1935)
- Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
- Romeo and Juliet (1936)
- Camille (1936)
- Holiday (1938)
- Zaza (1939)
- The Women (1939)
- Susan and God (1940)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- A Woman's Face (1941)
- Two-Faced Woman (1941)
- Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
- Keeper of the Flame (1943)
- Gaslight (1944)
- Winged Victory (1944)
- A Double Life (1947)
- Edward, My Son (1949)
- Adam's Rib (1949)
- A Life of Her Own (1950)
- Born Yesterday (1950)
- The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)
- The Marrying Kind (1952)
- Pat and Mike (1952)
- The Actress (1953)
- It Should Happen to You (1954)
- A Star Is Born (1954)
- Bhowani Junction (1956)
- Les Girls (1957)
- Wild Is the Wind (1957)
- Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
- Let's Make Love (1960)
- Something's Got to Give (1962)
- The Chapman Report (1962)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- Justine (1969)
- Travels with My Aunt (1972)
- Love Among the Ruins (1975)
- The Blue Bird (1976)
- The Corn is Green (1979)
- Rich and Famous (1981)
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