Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) on Netflix
NR20031h 51mDocumentaryHistoryMusic
A filmmaker sets out to record the Broadway of the 1940s and 1950s before its historic performances and the people who remember them are gone. He interviews more than a hundred stars.
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Plot summary
The documentary recounts the golden age of Broadway in the words of the stage legends of the 1940s and 1950s. Filming stretches across six years and gathers more than a hundred people who worked on Broadway or in Hollywood. They describe arriving in New York and helping to build that legendary century of American theater. Their accounts are set beside rare lost footage of actual stage performances, along with personal home movies and photographs never seen by the public. Historic Broadway performances are the most endangered of the arts, leaving only memories behind, which are more vivid but harder to preserve.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
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- Seven of the documentary's interviewees, Hume Cronyn, Uta Hagen, Al Hirschfeld, Kim Hunter, Ann Miller, Harold Nicholas and Gwen Verdon, died before the film was released in June 2004, and 51 more had died by September 2021.
- Broadway: The Golden Age was the final film Sally Ann Howes starred in; the actress died in 2021.
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