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Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) More at IMDbPro »

• Was originally planned to end with the production number "Petting in the Park", but after seeing the complete numbers, the studio added the politically charged "My Forgotten Man" at the end, pointing out that while the cast is "in the money", many others were not Depression-era America were not. Remains of the old order are visible; in the final backstage scene, Ruby Keeler and the chorus girls are all wearing costumes for the number "Petting in the Park".
  
  
• Cut from the release print was Ginger Rogers' version of "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song" (music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Al Dubin), crooned atop a piano. Ginger's prerecording still exists.
  
  
• The musical numbers were added to the film after it was already finished due to the enormous success of Busby Berkeley's routines in 42nd Street (1933).
  
  
• At one point Barney Hopkins (Ned Sparks) yells, "Cancel my contract with Warren and Dubin!" Harry Warren and Al Dubin were the most successful songwriting team in Hollywood at that time, and Warren in fact wrote all the songs for this picture.
  
  
• Various people, including director Mervyn LeRoy and choreographer Busby Berkeley, have claimed credit for Ginger Rogers' pig-Latin rendition of "We're in the Money". In her autobiography, Rogers gives the credit to then Warner Bros executive Darryl F. Zanuck.
  
  
• In the same scene where Ned Sparks yells, "Cancel my contract with Warren and Dubin!" he refers in passing to "the Astaires". At the time this film was being made, Fred Astaire and his sister Adele Astaire were the reigning brother/sister duo on Broadway. Fred's next partner Ginger Rogers is in this scene where he and his sister are mentioned.
  
  
• At 5:55 PM PST on March 10, 1933, the Long Beach earthquake hit southern California, measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale. When the earthquake hit, Busby Berkeley was filming the "Shadow Waltz" dance sequence on a sound stage on the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank. The earthquake caused a blackout on the sound stage and short-circuited some of the neon-tubed violins. Berkeley was almost thrown from a camera boom, and dangled by one hand until he could pull himself back up. Since many of the chorus girls in the dance number were on a 30-foot-high scaffold, Berkeley yelled for them to sit down and wait until the stage hands and technicians could open the sound stage doors and let in some light.
  
  
• According to the final shooting script, Gold Diggers was supposed to end with a reprise of the Gold Diggers Song (We're in the Money), preceded by the Shadow Waltz. Pettin' in the Park was paired with 'Remember my Forgotten Man' much earlier in the film.
  
  

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