Broadway Bill
“The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'”
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...
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Studio
Columbia Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Broadway Bill performed
Budget
$668,900
Worldwide Gross
$1.4M
Gross Profit
$731,100
Return
2.1× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$202K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Cast
Dan Brooks
Warner Baxter
Dan Brooks
Alice 'Princess' Higgins
Myrna Loy
Alice 'Princess' Higgins
J.L. Higgins
Walter Connolly
J.L. Higgins
Margaret
Helen Vinson
Margaret
Eddie Morgan
Douglass Dumbrille
Eddie Morgan
Colonel Pettigrew
Raymond Walburn
Colonel Pettigrew
Happy McGuire
Lynne Overman
Happy McGuire
Whitey
Clarence Muse
Whitey
Broadway Bill - a Horse
Broadway Bill
Broadway Bill - a Horse
Edna
Margaret Hamilton
Edna
Ted Williams
Frankie Darro
Ted Williams
Joe
George Cooper
Joe
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