Broadway Bill (1934)

6.0/10 104 min Comedy Drama

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...

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

Frankie Darro

Ted Williams

George Cooper

Joe

George Meeker

Henry Early

Jason Robards Sr.

Arthur Winslow

Edmund Breese

Presiding Judge

Clara Blandick

Mrs. Peterson

Irving Bacon

Hamburger Stand Owner (uncredited)

Lucille Ball

Blonde Telephone Operator (uncredited)

Stanley Blystone

Jailer (uncredited)

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