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Broadway Gondolier is a musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film was released by Warner Bros., and featured Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Adolphe Menjou.
Broadway Gondolier: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Louise Fazenda. Dick Purcell is an American taxi driver who wants to become a singer promoting cheese products. Oddly he thinks the way to do it is to become a gondolier from Venice.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Lloyd Bacon
- 1935-07-27
Synopsis. When two music critics hear their taxi driver, Dick Purcell, sing an operatic aria, they are so impressed that they send him to radio producer, E. V. Richards.
- Lloyd Bacon
- Dick Powell
As vehicles for the "insipid Dick Powell"* go, Broadway Gondolier is slight but good. Powell plays a singing taxi driver who wants to break into radio, which happens in circles of farcical disappointment through a ruse as a Venetian gondolier.
- Lloyd Bacon
- Warner Bros. Pictures
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
A singing cabby (Dick Powell) poses as a gondolier for a cheese company, then goes to Venice and becomes one.
- Musical, Comedy
Broadway Gondolier (1935) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
