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The Shannons of Broadway (1929)
Directed by Emmett J. Flynn
Overview
The Shannons, a vaudeville act, are performing in a New England town when the local hotel owner barges in and yanks his daughter Tessie, who is in the audience with her boyfriend Chuck, out of the theater. Young Mickey Shannon confronts the father, and the upshot is that Chuck’s wealthy father threatens to foreclose on the hotel. The Shannons wind up buying the hotel, but it turns out not to be quite the deal they thought it was.
Length 65 minutes
Actors
James Gleason | Lucile Gleason | Mary Philbin | John Breeden | Tom Santschi | Harry Tyler | Gladys Crolius | Helen Mehrmann | Robert T. Haines | Slim Summerville | Tom Kennedy | Walter Brennan | Charley Grapewin