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1934

BROADWAY BILL

The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'

Comedy
Drama
60

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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...

Director: Frank Capra
Runtime: 104 minutes
Budget: $668.90 thousand
Box Office: $1.40 million
Vote Average: 60

Cast

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Warner Baxter

Dan Brooks

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Myrna Loy

Alice 'Princess' Higgins

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Walter Connolly

J.L. Higgins

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Helen Vinson

Margaret

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Douglass Dumbrille

Eddie Morgan

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Raymond Walburn

Colonel Pettigrew

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Lynne Overman

Happy McGuire

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Clarence Muse

Whitey

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Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill - a Horse

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Margaret Hamilton

Edna

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Frankie Darro

Ted Williams

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George Cooper

Joe

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George Meeker

Henry Early

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Jason Robards Sr.

Arthur Winslow

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Ed Tucker

Jimmy Baker

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Edmund Breese

Presiding Judge

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Clara Blandick

Mrs. Peterson

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Irving Bacon

Hamburger Stand Owner (uncredited)

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Lucille Ball

Blonde Telephone Operator (uncredited)

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Stanley Blystone

Jailer (uncredited)

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Ward Bond

Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

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Sidney Bracey

Higgins' 2nd Butler (uncredited)

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Harry C. Bradley

Morgan's Bookkeeper (uncredited)

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Heinie Conklin

Bettor on Broadway Bill (uncredited)

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Gino Corrado

(uncredited)

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Inez Courtney

Nurse Mae (uncredited)

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Kernan Cripps

Policeman (uncredited)

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Helen Flint

Mrs. Henry Early (uncredited)

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Sam Flint

Racetrack Official (uncredited)

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Christian J. Frank

Sheriff (uncredited)

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Gladys Gale

Head Nurse (uncredited)

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Alan Hale

Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

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Forrester Harvey

Bradshaw (uncredited)

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Paul Harvey

James Whitehall (uncredited)

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Frank Holliday

Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)

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Alfred P. James

Mel (uncredited)

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Charles Lane

Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

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Robert McKenzie

Man in Barbershop (uncredited)

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John Merton

Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

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Charles Middleton

Veterinarian (uncredited)

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Helene Millard

Mrs. Arthur Winslow (uncredited)

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Bert Moorhouse

(uncredited)

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Louis Natheaux

Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

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Frank O'Connor

Reporter (uncredited)

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Dennis O'Keefe

(uncredited)

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Harry Semels

Conductor Bettor on Broadway Bill (uncredited)

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Skeeter

Broadway Bill's Rooster (uncredited)

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Joan Standing

Brooks' Phone Operator (uncredited)

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Emmett Vogan

Betting Parlor Operator (uncredited)

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Fred Walton

Butler (uncredited)

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Ethel Bryant

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