Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill

104 mins | Drama, Comedy | Nov. 30, 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 J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

Broadway Bill

104 mins | Drama, Comedy | Nov. 30, 1934

Broadway Bill
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 bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title Broadway Bill
Directors Frank Capra
Writers Mark Hellinger, Robert Riskin

Cast

Warner Baxter

as Dan Brooks

Myrna Loy

as Alice 'Princess' Higgins

Walter Connolly

as J.L. Higgins

Helen Vinson

as Margaret

Douglass Dumbrille

as Eddie Morgan

Raymond Walburn

as Colonel Pettigrew

Lynne Overman

as Happy McGuire

Clarence Muse

as Whitey

Broadway Bill

as Broadway Bill - a Horse

Frankie Darro

as Ted Williams

George Cooper

as Joe

George Meeker

as Henry Early

Jason Robards Sr.

as Arthur Winslow

Ed Tucker

as Jimmy Baker

Edmund Breese

as Presiding Judge

Clara Blandick

as Mrs. Peterson

Irving Bacon

as Hamburger Stand Owner (uncredited)

Lucille Ball

as Blonde Telephone Operator (uncredited)

Stanley Blystone

as Jailer (uncredited)

Ward Bond

as Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

Sidney Bracey

as Higgins' 2nd Butler (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley

as Morgan's Bookkeeper (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

as Bettor on Broadway Bill (uncredited)

Gino Corrado

as (uncredited)

Inez Courtney

as Nurse Mae (uncredited)

Kernan Cripps

as Policeman (uncredited)

Helen Flint

as Mrs. Henry Early (uncredited)

Sam Flint

as Racetrack Official (uncredited)

Christian J. Frank

as Sheriff (uncredited)

Gladys Gale

as Head Nurse (uncredited)

Alan Hale

as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

Forrester Harvey

as Bradshaw (uncredited)

Paul Harvey

as James Whitehall (uncredited)

Frank Holliday

as Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)

Alfred P. James

as Mel (uncredited)

Charles Lane

as Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

Robert McKenzie

as Man in Barbershop (uncredited)

John Merton

as Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

Charles Middleton

as Veterinarian (uncredited)

Helene Millard

as Mrs. Arthur Winslow (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

as (uncredited)

Louis Natheaux

as Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)

Frank O'Connor

as Reporter (uncredited)

Dennis O'Keefe

as (uncredited)

Harry Semels

as Conductor Bettor on Broadway Bill (uncredited)

Skeeter

as Broadway Bill's Rooster (uncredited)

Joan Standing

as Brooks' Phone Operator (uncredited)

Emmett Vogan

as Betting Parlor Operator (uncredited)

Fred Walton

as Butler (uncredited)