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Broadway Bill(1934)
Status: Released
Date: 1934-11-30
60%
21 Votes
Time: 1h 44m
The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'
Overview:
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
Languages: English, French, Spanish.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $668,900.00
Revenue: $1,400,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Broadway Bill
Top 10 Billed Cast
Warner Baxter
Dan Brooks
Myrna Loy
Alice 'Princess' Higgins
Walter Connolly
J.L. Higgins
Helen Vinson
Margaret
Douglass Dumbrille
Eddie Morgan
Raymond Walburn
Colonel Pettigrew
Lynne Overman
Happy McGuire
Clarence Muse
Whitey
Margaret Hamilton
Edna
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