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Award Snub: It failed to get a Best Picture Oscar nomination when it first came out.
Hell, it lost to The Greatest Show On Earth. Still, it didn't do very well in general when it first came out.
Big Lipped Alligator Moment: "Broadway Melody" really takes the cake. Fourteen minutes that are a BLAM both in the actual film and the Film Within a Film it's supposedly a part of! At least it's pretty fun in its own right.
And the part where Don dances with Cyd Charrise in an abstract pink background is weird even for the sequence itself, essentially a BLAM within a BLAM.
BLAMception!
Older Than They Think: Many younger viewers mistakenly believe the songs are original to the film.
Uncanny Valley: This troper finds the frozen tableau of girls in the "Beautiful Girls" number a little off-putting.
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