Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
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Personally supervised by Howard R. Hughes, the RKO Technicolor musical Two Tickets to Broadway stars Janet Leigh as a small-town girl who hopes to make it big in the Big Apple. Moving into a Manhattan boarding house populated by such showbiz hopefuls as Ann Miller, Tony Martin, Gloria De Haven and… More Personally supervised by Howard R. Hughes, the RKO Technicolor musical Two Tickets to Broadway stars Janet Leigh as a small-town girl who hopes to make it big in the Big Apple. Moving into a Manhattan boarding house populated by such showbiz hopefuls as Ann Miller, Tony Martin, Gloria De Haven and Barbara Lawrence, Leigh aspires to appear on the popular TV variety program hosted by bandleader Bob Crosby. Two-bit agent Eddie Bracken promises to make her dreams come true, even though he doesn't know Crosby from Adam. Along the way, Leigh falls for Martin, though the course of true love seldom runs smooth--in fact, at one point it threatens to run all the way back to Leigh's home town. Injecting their time-honored routines into the proceedings are veteran vaudevillians Joe Smith and Charlie Dale, playing a couple of stagestruck deli owners (their roles were originally slated for Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, but Laurel's illness precluded any film work). Despite the creative input of choreographer Busby Berkeley, the film's best number is the simplest: Let's Make Comparisons, wherein Bob Crosby explains why he's not his brother Bing. Seemingly a surefire box-office hit, Two Tickets to Broadway inexplicably posted a loss of $1,150,000. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- James V. Kern
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 20, 1951 Wide
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Cast
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Tony Martin
as Dan Carter
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Janet Leigh
as Nancy Peterson
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Gloria de Haven
as Hannah Holbrook
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Eddie Bracken
as Lew Conway
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Ann Miller
as Joyce Campbell
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Bob Crosby
as Himself
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Barbara Lawrence
as S.F. "Foxy" Rogers
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Joe Smith
as Harry
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Charles Dale
as Leo
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Taylor Holmes
as Willard Glendon
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Buddy Baer
as Sailor
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Joan Arnold
as Secretary
- Joan Barton
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Larry Barton
as Waiter
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Don Blackman
as Porter
- Carol Brewster
- Kathleen Case
- Jean Corbett
- Mara Corday
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Billy Curtis
as Midget
- Lester Dorr
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Jimmie Dundee
as Doorman
- Joan Evans
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John Gallaudet
as McGiven
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Jack Gargan
as Dispatcher
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Vincent Graeff
as Cheerleader
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Jerry Hausner
as Agent
- Ralph Hodges
- Marilyn Johnson
- Lola Kendrick
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Anne Kimbell
as Western Union Girl
- Lucy Knoch
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Joi Lansing
as Redhead
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Donald MacBride
as Bus Terminal Guard
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Vera Miles
as Chorus girl
- George Nader
- Kathleen O'Malley
- Anne O'Neal
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Garry Owen
as Man
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Isabel Randolph
as Housekeeper
- Joan Shawlee
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John Sheehan
as Desk clerk
- Dale Smith
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Helen Spring
as Mrs. Peterson
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Libby Taylor
as Maid
- Bob Thom
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Marie Thomas
as Girl
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Sid Tomack
as Bus Driver
- Mamie Van Doren
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Lillian West
as Old Lady
- Barbara Logan
- Mona Knox
- Joel Robinson
- Joan Whitney
- Jane Easton
- Michael Lally
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Michael Pierce
as Hot Rod Passenger
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Suzanne Ames
as Beautiful Girl
- Shirley Buchanan
- Gwen Caldwell
- Rosalee Calvert
- Herman Cantor
- Georgia Clancy
- Eileen Coghlan
- Joanne Frank
- Barbara Freking
- Mary Ellen Gleason
- Pat Hall
- Evelyn Lovequist
- June McCall
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Norval Mitchell
as Mr. Peterson
- Hazel Shaw
- Miles Shepard
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Frieda Stoll
as Wardrobe Woman
- Shirley Tegge
- Barbara Thatcher
- Claudette Thornton
- Shirley Whitney
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Ann Zika
as Blonde
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Linda Williams
as Brunette
- The Charlivels
