Broadway Bill
“The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'”
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...
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Cast
51 people
Warner Baxter
Dan Brooks
Known for
42nd Street
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Myrna Loy
Alice 'Princess' Higgins
Known for
The Thin Man
The Best Years of Our Lives
Walter Connolly
J.L. Higgins
Known for
It Happened One Night
Twentieth Century
Helen Vinson
Margaret
Known for
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
The Thin Man Goes Home
Douglass Dumbrille
Eddie Morgan
Known for
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
The Ten Commandments
Raymond Walburn
Colonel Pettigrew
Known for
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Christmas in July
Lynne Overman
Happy McGuire
Known for
Union Pacific
Reap the Wild Wind
Clarence Muse
Whitey
Known for
The Black Stallion
Shadow of a Doubt
Broadway Bill
Broadway Bill - a Horse
No other roles listed
Margaret Hamilton
Edna
Known for
The Wizard of Oz
13 Ghosts
Frankie Darro
Ted Williams
Known for
Wild Boys of the Road
Operation Petticoat
George Cooper
Joe
Also in
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
Flames
Frank Capra Director · Robert Riskin Screenplay Mark Hellinger Story
Worldwide gross $1.4M · Budget $669K · United States release November 30, 1934
Box office
Budget
$668,900
Worldwide gross
$1,400,000
Gross vs. budget
2.1×
Production
Columbia Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · French · Spanish
Release dates
United States · November 30, 1934
Limited theatrical · New York City, New York
United States
December 27, 1934 · Theatrical
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