Broadway Bill
20 reviews
Comedy/Drama
1h 44m
1934
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...
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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...
- DirectorFrank Capra
- Release30 November 1934
- Genre
- Duration1h 44m
- Budget$668,900
- Revenue$1,400,000
- Rate20 reviews
- Productions
Columbia Pictures
Cast

Warner Baxter
Dan Brooks

Myrna Loy
Alice 'Princess' Higgins

Walter Connolly
J.L. Higgins

Helen Vinson
Margaret

Douglass Dumbrille
Eddie Morgan

Raymond Walburn
Colonel Pettigrew

Lynne Overman
Happy McGuire

Clarence Muse
Whitey

Margaret Hamilton
Edna

Frankie Darro
Ted Williams

George Cooper
Joe

George Meeker
Henry Early

Jason Robards Sr.
Arthur Winslow

Edmund Breese
Presiding Judge

Clara Blandick
Mrs. Peterson

Irving Bacon
Hamburger Stand Owner (uncredited)

Lucille Ball
Blonde Telephone Operator (uncredited)

Stanley Blystone
Jailer (uncredited)

Ward Bond
Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

Sidney Bracey
Higgins' 2nd Butler (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley
Morgan's Bookkeeper (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin
Bettor on Broadway Bill (uncredited)

Gino Corrado
(uncredited)

Inez Courtney
Nurse Mae (uncredited)

Kernan Cripps
Policeman (uncredited)

Helen Flint
Mrs. Henry Early (uncredited)

Sam Flint
Racetrack Official (uncredited)

Christian J. Frank
Sheriff (uncredited)

Gladys Gale
Head Nurse (uncredited)

Alan Hale
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

Forrester Harvey
Bradshaw (uncredited)

Paul Harvey
James Whitehall (uncredited)

Charles Lane
Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

Robert McKenzie
Man in Barbershop (uncredited)

John Merton
Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

Charles Middleton
Veterinarian (uncredited)

Helene Millard
Mrs. Arthur Winslow (uncredited)

Louis Natheaux
Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

Frank O'Connor
Reporter (uncredited)

Dennis O'Keefe
(uncredited)

Harry Semels
Conductor Bettor on Broadway Bill (uncredited)

Joan Standing
Brooks' Phone Operator (uncredited)

Emmett Vogan
Betting Parlor Operator (uncredited)
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