- Country: USA
- Genres: Comedy
- Release: 1938-04-01
- Director: Ray McCarey
- Writers: James Gleason (I) (1882–1959) , Roy Chanslor , A. Dorian Otvos
- Language: English
- Stars: Alice Brady , Charles Winninger , Tom Brown , Dorothea Kent , Frank Jenks , Jed Prouty , Willie Best , Donald Meek (1878–1946) , Henry Roquemore , Dell Henderson
- Runtime: 65 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: De glade hotelværter (Denmark) , L'albergo delle sorprese (Italy) , Adeus Broadway (Bosnia and Herzegovina) , The Thing is the Play (United States of America) , Goodbye Broadway , Goodbye Broadway (United States of America)
- Plot: Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell. Higgins puts an ad in "Variety" and a swarm of jobless vaudevillians, headed by Marvello descend to take advantage of the "free board" mentioned in the ad, and soon turn it into a three-ring circus. The only paying customer, Iradius P. Oglethorpe, informs Pat that the old chairs stored in the cellar are priceless antiques. Based on that, Pat refuses Higgins' second-and-higher offer, but soon learns that Oglethorpe is the village idiot and the chairs are worthless. Their last hope is a benefit show, staged by Higgins' nephew, Chuck Bradford, who loves Jeanne Carlyle of the Malloy troupe. But the free-loading vaudeville boarders skip town.
- IMDB:tt0030197
Goodbye Broadway Cast · · · ALL
Ray McCarey
Director
Alice Brady
Molly Malloy
Charles Winninger
Pat Malloy
Tom Brown
Chuck Bradford
Dorothea Kent
Jeanne Carlyle
Frank Jenks
Harry Clark
Jed Prouty
J.A. Higgins
Willie Best
Jughead
Donald Meek
(1878–1946)
Iradius P. Oglethorpe
Henry Roquemore
Henry Swanzey