Angels Over Broadway Overview:

Angels Over Broadway (1940) was a Adventure - Comedy Film directed by Lee Garmes and Ben Hecht and produced by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Ben Hecht.

SYNOPSIS

Hecht brings to life the world of loners, two-bit hustlers, and has-beens that populate Times Square. Fairbanks plans to swindle a suicidal thief, but then plots with call girl Hayworth to turn his life around. Great cast in an unusually black comedy for its time.

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Academy Awards 1940 --- Ceremony Number 13 (source: AMPAS)

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Best WritingBen HechtNominated
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Angels Over Broadway (1940) with Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

By Orson De Welles on Dec 24, 2015 From Classic Film Freak

Share This! A HECTIC ROMANCE TO BLOW THE FUSES OUT ALONG MAZDA LANE! Among the list of films which perhaps don?t get the attention they deserve is 1940?s Angels Over Broadway, a title which plays a few ways over the course of a compact 78 minute running time.?? The film, which was written and direct... Read full article


Angels Over Broadway (1940)

on Jul 8, 2015 From Journeys in Classic Film

I started off with two of Rita Hayworth’s most legendary performances (Gilda and The Lady From Shanghai) and for final three days of her July Five tribute we’ll be looking at a few of her lesser known films. Released six years before Hayworth “put the blame on Mame,” Angels O... Read full article


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Quotes from

Bill O'Brien: [on the telephone] Hello, Dutch? Bill O'Brien! Say listen, I'm over at the Pigeon Club takin' in the sights, and, uh, I ran into somethin' that I thought might be of mutual interest to us. An out-of-town job came shoo-shooing in here a while ago and throwin' away money like birdseed.


Nina Barone: [to Bill O'Brien] I'll remember this night for a long time. When things don't seem so good, I'll remember Mr. Gibbons, and Mr. Engle... and you.


Nina Barone: Oh, if only I had my slave costume and my chains!


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Facts about

Walter Baldwin (Rennick) and Stanley Brown (Master of Ceremonies) are listed by a modern source as cast members for those roles, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.
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