Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Gold Diggers Of 1933

 

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Warner Bros. / Vitaphone, 1933, B/W, 94 minutes

Producer: Robert Lord
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Screen Play by: Erwin Gelsey and James Seymour
Dialogue by: David Boehm and Ben Markson
Based on a Play by Avery Hopwood ("Gold Diggers of Broadway")
Music and Lyrics by: Harry Warren and Al Dubin
Numbers Created and Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted by: Leo F. Forbstein
Gowns by: Orry-Kelly

Awards: Academy Award Nomination for Best Sound Recording (Nathan Levinson)

STORY LINE

Barney Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to unpaid bills. Everybody is sitting in the street, and due to the Depression, there is no work for the three chorus girls Carol, Trixie and Polly. But they hear rumours that Barney is producing a new show. They talk to him, and he promises to give them work - when he finds a backer to produce the new show. Barney hears the tunes of the composer next door, Brad Roberts, Polly's friend. Brad joins them and agrees to back the show. On opening night Brad takes over for the juvenile lead, who is suffering from lumbago. Brad has been very publicity-shy, because he is a member of an upper-class wealthy Boston family. When his family hears what he is doing, his brother Lawrence and the family attorney Peabody come to New York, to end his relationship with Polly. But Lawrence mistakes Carol for Polly...

Cast:
Warren William (Lawrence),
Joan Blondell (Carol),
Aline MacMahon (Trixie),
Ruby Keeler (Polly),
Dick Powell (Brad),
Guy Kibbee (Peabody),

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