Comet over Broadway is a 1938 American drama film starring Kay Francis, Ian Hunter and Donald Crisp.

Eve, realizing her part in Bill's fate, vows to right matters, and taking her baby daughter, goes away to make her way in the theatre.

Warners originally announced the project in May 1937 as a vehicle for Kay Francis based on a story by Faith Baldwin.

[5][6] Ian Keith, Walter Abel (borrowed from RKO), and Ronald Reagan were set to costar, and the film was meant to start shooting in early April 1938.

"This was the first nothing script I was given since my court battle in England", Davis later recalled, referring to the lawsuit in which she tried to win her freedom from Warner Bros. after being forced to appear in a series of mediocre films.

On March 30, with the film to start on Monday, Davis refused to make the movie claiming it was not up to the standard set by Jezebel.

She claimed she was ill but would have made the effort to appear in a film if it had been more than a "routine Cinderella yarn...Had it been The Life of Sarah Bernhardt or Maximillian and Carlotta, both of which have been scheduled for me, I would have attempted to go to the studio, but I did not feel justified in jeopardizing my health on behalf of such an atrocious script.

[14] Warners lodged a complaint against Davis with the Screen Actors Guild, which stated it needed time to investigate the matter.