Broadway Babies (1929)
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2025-09 to 2026-08
Directors
Mervyn LeRoy
Cast
Alice White, Bodil Rosing, Charles Delaney, Fred Kohler, Louis Natheaux, Marion Byron, Maurice Black, Sally Eilers, Tom Dugan
The story
thumb|thumbtime=5|Broadway Babies (1929) Chorus girl Delight "Dee" Foster is in love with stage manager Billy Buvanny and he also loves her. They plan to marry until bootlegger Perc Gessant steps in. Dee is led to believe that Billy is in love with another girl, so she agrees to play around with Gessant when he becomes interested in her.
Genres
musical film, silent film
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