Lullaby of Broadway
1951 · 92 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 1,281 VOTES · DIR. David Butler
Overview
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.
Dialogue Timeline — 871 lines
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00:01:37 More! More!
00:06:02 -They always have a mother. -Gosh, l haven't seen her in years.
00:09:09 She's due in a day or so for a conference with her producers.
00:12:35 There's only one way. l told her you're on the road.
00:16:26 -...twisting around in my living room? -l'm Miss Howard.
00:22:37 Confidentially, Ferndel, the producer, brings them so l put money in his show.
00:27:32 ln a show my husband doesn't have to back.
00:30:06 -What are you doing here all alone? -Oh, l'm trying to avoid a dancing lesson.
00:33:19 Oh, hello, Lefty.
00:37:58 -You wanted to surprise her. -That's right.
00:40:21 Cheer her up. Take her to dinner, to a show.
00:43:16 And he had a perfect right to mention it to us.
00:46:06 -Thank you. -Naturally.
00:49:17 Don't mind me, l still read The Bobbsey Twins.
00:53:42 lf you're going to fight it, you'll have a long downhill struggle.
00:56:06 Don't link me with Gloria in this. Mentally, we're perfect strangers.
00:59:04 Your wife was like a retriever the way she went after that fur.
01:01:33 ...the De Mattiazzis present their dancing mechanical dolls.
01:10:26 What?
01:12:56 Yesterday.
01:17:02 By tomorrow, they'll forget it.
01:20:31 ...l'm coming up there and break her arm in three places.
01:23:21 You've got it all wrong. l didn't want you to see me.
50:00:00 l'm already in rehearsal.