Broadway

Broadway is a 1942 crime drama musical film directed by William A. Seiter and starring George Raft as himself and Pat O'Brien as a detective. The supporting cast features Janet Blair and Broderick Crawford. Another fictionalized biographical movie based on Raft's life, The George Raft Story (1961), featured a different actor (Ray Danton) playing Raft. Plot George Raft, a Hollywood dancer, returns to Manhattan and recalls working in a nightclub with a bootlegger's girlfriend. Cast George Raft as George Raft Pat O'Brien as Dan McCorn Janet Blair as Billie Moore Broderick Crawford as Steve Crandall Marjorie Rambeau as Lillian (Lil) Rice Anne Gwynne as Pearl S. Z. Sakall as Nick Edward Brophy as Porky (as Edward S. Brophy) Marie Wilson as Grace Gus Schilling as Joe Ralf Harolde as Dolph Arthur Shields as Pete Dailey Iris Adrian as Maisie Janet Warren as Ruby (as Elaine Morey) Dorothy Moore as Ann Nestor Paiva as Rinalti Abner Biberman as Trado Damian O'Flynn as Scar Edwards Mack Gray as Mack 'Killer' Gray