I caught most, but not quite all, of The Broadway Melody of 1929 on Turner Classic Movies a while back. This one’s got it all, as the saying goes, including this powerful scene where a love triangle comes apart at the seams. Actress Bessie Love tries to hold herself together, while having a complete breakdown, in a performance worthy of an Oscar. Bessie lost to Mary Pickford. The other woman is 18-year-old Anita Page, born in 1910 and still living.
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Note: Anita Page passed away on Saturday, September 6, 2008.