Broadway Rhythm
Broadway Rhythm (1944) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor musical film, produced by Jack Cummings and directed by Roy Del Ruth.Other cast members included Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven, Lena Horne, Nancy Walker, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, the Ross Sisters, and Ben Blue, as well as Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra.Murphy plays a successful Broadway musical comedy producer named Johnnie Demming.He's smitten with the glamorous film star, Helen Hoyt (Simms), and offers the part to her, but she turns him down because she wants to be sure she's in a hit.Some of the songs from the movie are by the writers of the original musical, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II: