Broadway Babies, aka Broadway Daddies (UK) and Ragazze d'America (Italy), is a black and white 1929 American musical film. This was Alice White's first ever talking movie.

Taglines

The film's various taglines include:

• "All the brightest lights of Broadway merged in one!"
• "Incandescent with IT!"
• "Girls and guns and glare and glamor."

Cast

• Alice White - Delight 'Dee' Foster
• Marion Byron
  Marion Byron
  Marion "Peanuts" Byron was a petite, plucky American movie comedienne.She was born in Dayton, Ohio. After following her sister into a short stage career as a singer/dancer, she was given her first movie role as Buster Keaton's leading lady in the film Steamboat Bill Jr. in 1928...
  
   - Florine Chanler (as Miriam Byron)
• Sally Eilers
  Sally Eilers
  -Life and career:Born as Dorothea Sally Eilers in New York City to a Jewish-American mother, Paula, and an Irish-American father, Peter Eilers, . She was educated in Los Angeles and went into films because so many of her friends were in pictures. She studied for the stage, specialising in dancing...
  
   - Navarre King
• Charles Delaney - Billy Buvanny
• Tom Dugan
  Tom Dugan
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   - Scotty
• Bodil Rosing
  Bodil Rosing
  Bodil Rosing was a Danish born American film actress in the silent and sound eras. She made one or two stage appearances on Broadway but in the meantime raised four chidren.-Filmography:* Pretty Ladies...
  
   - Sarah Durgan
• Maurice Black
  Maurice Black
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   - Nick Stepanos
• Fred Kohler
  Fred Kohler
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   - Perc Gessant
• Louis Natheaux - August 'Gus' Brand
• Jocelyn Lee - Blossom Royal
• Lew Harvey
  Lew Harvey
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   - Joe, One of the Poker Players (uncredited)
• Aggie Herring
  Aggie Herring
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   - Landlady (uncredited)
• Al Hill
  Al Hill (actor)
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   - One of Perc's Henchmen (uncredited)
• Armand Kaliz
  Armand Kaliz
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   - Tony Ginetti, the Nightclub Manager (uncredited)

Songs

• "Wishing and Waiting for Love"

Written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke

Sung by an unidentified man over the opening credits

Reprised by Alice White and chorus at the nightclub

Played as background music throughout the film

• "Give My Regards to Broadway"

Written by George M. Cohan
Played as background in the first scene of New York

• "Vesti La Giubb", from I Pagliacci

Written by Ruggerio Leoncavallo

Sung a cappella by a tenor at the rooming house

• "Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride)", from Lohengrin
  Lohengrin (opera)
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Written by Richard Wagner (1850)

Sung a cappella by Charles Delaney and Tom Dugan

• "Jig, Jig, Jigaloo"

Written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke

Sung and danced to by Alice White and chorus at rehearsal

Reprised by Alice White and chorus at the show

• "Broadway Baby Dolls"

Written by George W. Meyer and Al Bryan

Sung by Alice White in the last show

Danced to by Alice White and chorus in the show

Movie Connections

• Saturday's Children
  Saturday's Children
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   (1929)
• The Broadway Melody
  The Broadway Melody
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   (1929)
• Broadway
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• Broadway Bad (1933)
• The Broadway Hoofer (1929)