Broadway Through a Keyhole (1933)
This drama was written by famed radio announcer Walter Winchell. It chronicles the tragic love between a racketeer and a singer. So smitten is he by the chorus girl's charms that he buys her a nightclub. Unfortunately for him, the club's male crooner/bandleader also loves the girl. Realizing that he cannot compete, the crook bows out. However, during her wedding the racketeer lays down his life in exchange for hers when others attempt to kidnap her. He is shot, but survives. In the hospital he listens to the radio and hears that he is considered a hero and that the would-be kidnappers have been killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, (more)
- Director(s):
- Lowell Sherman
Synopsis of Broadway Through a Keyhole
This drama was written by famed radio announcer Walter Winchell. It chronicles the tragic love between a racketeer and a singer. So smitten is he by the chorus girl's charms that he buys her a nightclub. Unfortunately for him, the club's male crooner/bandleader also loves the girl. Realizing that he cannot compete, the crook bows out. However, during her wedding the racketeer lays down his life in exchange for hers when others attempt to kidnap her. He is shot, but survives. In the hospital he listens to the radio and hears that he is considered a hero and that the would-be kidnappers have been killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Complete Cast of Broadway Through a Keyhole
- Constance Cummings - Joan Whelan
- Paul Kelly - Hank Rocci
- Gregory Ratoff - Max Mefooski
- Hobart Cavanaugh - Peanuts Dinwiddie
- William Burress - Thomas Barnum
- Lucille Ball - Bit Part
- Texas Guinan - Tex Kaley
- Russ Columbo - Clark Brian
- Blossom Seeley - Sybil Smith
- Hugh O'Connell - Chuck Haskins
- C. Henry Gordon - Tim Crowley
- Helen Jerome Eddy - Esther
- Ann Sothern - Dancer
- Director(s):
- Lowell Sherman
- Writer(s):
- C. Graham Baker, Gene Towne
- Producer(s):
- Raymond Griffith, William Goetz
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