| Broadway Melody of 1938 | |
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| Directed by | Roy Del Ruth |
| Written by | Jack McGowan |
| Produced by | Jack Cummings |
| Starring | Robert Taylor Eleanor Powell Judy Garland |
| Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
| Edited by | Blanche Sewell |
| Music by | Nacio Herb Brown (songs-music) Arthur Freed (song-lyrics) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,588,000[1] |
| Box office | $2,846,000[1] |
Broadway Melody of 1938 is a 1937 American musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film is essentially a backstage musical revue, featuring high-budget sets and cinematography in the MGM musical tradition. The film stars Eleanor Powell and Robert Taylor and features Buddy Ebsen, George Murphy, Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, Raymond Walburn, Robert Benchley and Binnie Barnes.
The film is most notable for young Garland's performance of "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)", a tribute to Clark Gable which turned the teenage singer, who had been toiling in obscurity for a couple of years, into an overnight sensation, leading eventually to her being cast in The Wizard of Oz (1939) as Dorothy.