I didn't find anything at all interesting about this piece, other than a few notable players such as Frank Morgan and Fay Templeton, the storyline is droll, the acting flat and colorless. This was a patch-job production using footage from THE MARCH OF TIME (1930), which was scrapped before its completion by none other them MGM execs Harry Rapf and Irving Thalberg as a hopeless waste. Given the Great Depression era, when even the biggest companies were hard-pressed to save a few dollars wherever they could, the scrapped footage of that one was spliced into Broadway to Hollywood to recoup at least some of the investment. The only memorable clips were those of the Albertina Rasch dancers, with their primitive pre-Rockettes choreography, and that's giving it fair credit. I watched it for an entirely different reason, but it struck me as a very poor low-budget number, cobbled up from scraps. Definitely not a keeper! Morgan and Templeton, both fine players, are entirely wasted here. It'll not only put you to sleep, it'll tempt you to change the channel or turn it off! No good at all!
Review of Broadway to Hollywood
