Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America’s most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print – but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.

Edie Adams, Bea Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard, Bryan Batt, Betsy Blair, Jim Borstelmann, Tom Bosley, Marlon Brando, Carol Burnett, Kitty Carlisle, Carol Channing, Betty Comden, Barbara Cook, Carole Cook, Hume Cronyn, Arlene Dahl, Charles Durning, Daisy Eagan, Fred Ebb, Nanette Fabray, Cy Feuer, Phil Ford, Bonnie Franklin, Betty Garrett, Ben Gazzara, Robert Goulet, Farley Granger, Tammy Grimes, Uta Hagen, Sheldon Harnick, Julie Harris, Rosemary Harris, June Havoc, Ruthie Henshall, Jerry Herman, Mimi Hines, Al Hirschfeld, Celeste Holm, Sally Ann Howes, Kim Hunter, Jeremy Irons, Anne Jackson, Derek Jacobi, Richard Jay-Alexander, Simon Jones, Lainie Kazan, Miles Kreuger, Michael John LaChiusa, Martin Landau, Hanna Landy, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Laurents, Carol Lawrence, Michele Lee, Hal Linden, Cameron Mackintosh, Shirley MacLaine, Karl Malden, Rick McKay, Donna McKechnie, Ann Miller, Liliane Montevecchi, Patricia Morison, Robert Morse, James Naughton, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Newman, Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas, Jerry Orbach, Janis Paige, Don Pippin, Amanda Plummer, Jane Powell, Hal Prince, John Raitt, Lee Roy Reams, Rex Reed, Elliott Reid, Charles Nelson Reilly, Diana Rigg, Chita Rivera, Tony Roberts, Mary Rodgers, Gena Rowlands, Eva Marie Saint, Marian Seldes, Vincent Sherman, Douglas Sills, Stephen Sondheim, Kim Stanley, Maureen Stapleton, Marti Stevens, Elaine Stritch, Laurette Taylor, Mary Testa, Tommy Tune, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, Betsy von Furstenberg, Eli Wallach, Thommie Walsh, Wendy Wasserstein, Fay Wray, Gretchen Wyler, Karen Ziemba
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