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Broadway Gondolier is a musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film was released by Warner Bros., and featured Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Adolphe Menjou.
Broadway Gondolier: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Louise Fazenda. Dick Purcell is an American taxi driver who wants to become a singer promoting cheese products. Oddly he thinks the way to do it is to become a gondolier from Venice.
Synopsis. When two music critics hear their taxi driver, Dick Purcell, sing an operatic aria, they are so impressed that they send him to radio producer, E. V. Richards.
A singing cabby (Dick Powell) poses as a gondolier for a cheese company, then goes to Venice and becomes one.
As vehicles for the "insipid Dick Powell"* go, Broadway Gondolier is slight but good. Powell plays a singing taxi driver who wants to break into radio, which happens in circles of farcical disappointment through a ruse as a Venetian gondolier.
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Dec 14, 2018 · Broadway Gondolier, a modest musical comedy directed by Lloyd Bacon, served as star vehicle for Dick Powell and Joan Blondell. Powell plays Richard “Dick” Purcell, a taxi driver who aspires to become a singer.
