From my Facebook archives, January 25, 2015:
Broadway Bad, a Fox film from early 1933, is the latest Ginger Rogers film we've watched: number 28. Along with the near-simultaneous 42nd Street, this is the earliest in her career we've seen. Ginger's role is rather small; fortunately the star, Joan Blondell, is always enjoyable.
This is definitely pre-code, with single motherhood playing such a large role in the plot.
Here's a blog that shows what movies were playing in Milwaukee the week of March 12, 1933. Ginger was in three of them: 42nd Street (held over for being such a big hit), Broadway Bad, and The Thirteenth Guest (as the star).
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Ginger was very busy in 1933! It sure paid off. One of her last films that year was Flying Down to Rio, which launched her and Fred Astaire into superstardom.
In her book, Ginger calls Broadway Bad and one other of her many 1933 films (A Shriek in the Night) "bread-and-butter" pictures.
"They may have been B pictures, and not the most outstanding of the films I made, but they allowed me to pay the rent and put food on our table."
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