Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
1h 30m
Running Time
November 2, 1933Release Date
Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
1h 30m
Running Time
November 2, 1933Release Date
Plot.
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
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Cast & Crew.
Constance Cummings
Joan Whelan
Russ Columbo
Clark Brian
Paul Kelly
Frank Rocci
Gregory Ratoff
Max Mafoofski
Blossom Seeley
Sybil Smith
Texas Guinan
Tex Kaley
Lowell Sherman
Director
C. Graham Baker
Writer
Hugh O'Connell
Chuck Haskins
Gene Towne
Writer
Hobart Cavanaugh
Peanuts Dinwiddie
Abe Lyman
Orchestra leader
Walter Winchell
Writer
Frances Williams
Frances Williams
William Goetz
Producer
Raymond Griffith
Producer
Eddie Foy Jr.
Joan's partner
George Mann
George Mann -Columnist
C. Henry Gordon
Tim Crowley
William Burgess
Thomas Barnum
Helen Jerome Eddy
Esther
Edith Allen
Girl with Louie
Franklyn Ardell
Columnist #1
Lucille Ball
Chorine / Girl at the Beach
Ronnie Cosby
Little Boy
Susan Fleming
Chorine
Arthur Franklin
Pianist
Mary Gordon
Cleaning Woman
Theresa Harris
Joan's Maid
Rodney Hildebrandt
Member of Rocci's Mob
John Kelly
Louie (uncredited)
Ethan Laidlaw
Member of Rocci's Mob
Charles Lane
Columnist #2
Tom London
Member of Rocci's Mob
George Magrill
Member of Rocci's Mob
Sam McDaniel
Gus - Rocci's Valet
Marceline Medcalf
Little Girl
Edmund Mortimer
Nightclub Dance Extra
Dennis O'Keefe
Nightclub Dance Extra
Wheeler Oakman
Sam
Media.
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Broadway Through a Keyhole, also billed as Broadway Thru a Keyhole, is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film produced by Twentieth Century Pictures and released by United Artists.
New York City speakeasy proprietress Texas Guinan appears as a fictionalized version of herself in the film. It also features early appearances by Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, and Susan Fleming. The film is based on an original story by Broadway columnist Walter Winchell.