It's easy on my heart. The second Broadway film revue did not repeat the success of the 1929 film, but of the four Broadway melodies (and the fifth under the title Broadway rhythm of 1944) the 1936 melody is the 1936 melody. The plot is very simple and resembles "Cordeballet" Richard Attenborough: The venerable producer recruits artists for his new show and his former and longtime lover, whom he has not seen for a long time, comes to view, and who now stubbornly refuses to use in his performance. At the same time, the other participants in the film show what they are capable of as dancers and singers, and in the finale we are shown what kind of show the producer ultimately made of it. In the storyline, two newspapermen make an interesting variety, intending to make the producer look like a fool, and funny transformations of one of the newspapermen and the main character (alternately) into a non-existent French diva.
This is not a movie musical in the usual sense, it is rather a review, a selection of musical numbers, for viewability connected by a symbolic plot (something like our "Old songs about the main thing", I apologize for the comparison). With the development of television, such revues migrated to the TV screen, and more serious musicals with a more thoughtful plot and an independent musical theme were filmed in the cinema. However, despite everything, "Broadway melody" outdated does not seem at all: it just should not be taken too seriously. The story is fun, musical, full of brilliance and tinsel, quite fascinating and, thanks to the presence of Robert Taylor, with a romantic fleur. An easy and positive film to lift the mood in the evening of a difficult day.
