Broadway Hostess is a 1935 American romantic comedy musical film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Wini Shaw, Genevieve Tobin and Lyle Talbot.
[1] The film was nominated at the 1935 Academy Awards for the short lived Best Dance Direction category.
[3][4] Shaw plays a small town girl on her rise to stardom as a night club singer who is nevertheless not as fortunate with love.
Lucky claims he doesn't want to get married, but is in fact in love with socialite Iris, who brings him into her circle of rich snobs, including her brother, a hot-tempered drunk with a huge gambling problem.
[5] Andre Sennwald of The New York Times gave it a bad review saying it was very clichéd and hard to sit through.