Broadway to Hollywood Author:Robert Matthew-Walker With the coming of sound movies as a commercial proposition in the late 1920s, the importance of music in the cinema grew enormously. The arrival of color, allied to the technical developments in recording itself -- multitracking, stereo and quadraphonic techniques -- gave to the great film makers a fabulous palette with which to realize t... more »he transfer to the screen of the Broadway hits, capturing forever the great theatrical shows of the century. Thus two great entertainment disciplines, both essential products of America, were joined: the Broadway musical and the Hollywood film.
In Broadway to Hollywood Robert Matthew Walker relates the history of this genre with much never before published material and reminiscences from the film makers, composers, and stars themselves. « less