The broadway Melody(1929)

This is the first musical comedy elected as Best Movie for Oscar. And we have to say it is not too bad.

First, as it is a musical comedy, this movie is a speaking one, which is also the first speaking one winning Oscar. We find there some key features which are now on the common imaginaire of musical comedy : the singings, the yellow yellow-hat and stick, the "french cancan" and the inclusion of theater-scene inside the movie.
The story is mainly about love (again !) between various people which love or not each other and say the contrary (to summarise).
Nothing exceptionnal here, but nothing really bad neider, it would be interesting to watch the other movie of this year to compare the quality of the production.
We may note that electing a comedy just before the 1929 crisis may denote a lack of vision from the Academy, or exactly the contrary...