In Popular Culture
- A 1937 Our Gang comedy, Our Gang Follies of 1938, spoofs the title, concept, and style of Broadway Melody of 1938.
- Judy Garland singing "You Made Me Love You" to a picture of Clark Gable gets parodied in the 2007 musical film Hairspray when Link (Zac Efron) sings to a picture, of Tracy (Nikki Blonsky), which comes to life to sing with him.
- Tom Lehrer, in a song satirising George Murphy's election to the U.S. Senate, sang, "Imagine Broadway Melody of 1984".
- A song on Genesis' album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is entitled "Broadway Melody of 1974".
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