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A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
Robert Agnew
- Dance Director
- (uncredited)
Loretta Andrews
- Gold Digger
- (uncredited)
Monica Bannister
- Gold Digger
- (uncredited)
Bonnie Bannon
- Gold Digger
- (uncredited)
Joan Barclay
- Gold Digger
- (uncredited)
Billy Barty
- Baby in 'Pettin' in the Park' Number
- (uncredited)
Busby Berkeley
- Call Boy
- (uncredited)
Bonnie Blackwood
- Chorus girl
- (uncredited)
Eric Blore
- Complaining Club Member
- (uncredited)
Audrene Brier
- Gold Digger
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAt 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.
- GoofsWhen Brad plays piano for Mr. Hopkins, his fingers don't match the sound of the piano.
- Quotes
J. Lawrence Bradford: Every time you say 'Cheap and Vulgar' I'm going to kiss you.
Carol King: Cheap and Vulgar!
[kiss]
Carol King: Cheap and Vulgar!
[kiss]
Carol King: Cheap and Vulgar!
[long kiss]
- ConnectionsEdited into Busby Berkeley and the Gold Diggers (1969)
- SoundtracksThe Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Played during the opening credits and often in the score
Performed by Ginger Rogers (in English and Pig-Latin) and chorus
Played also as dance music by a band
Featured review
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I've heard of this movie for years, but didn't actually see it until last week when Turner Classic Movies ran it. And it is positively stunning!! On the surface, it moves almost like a carbon copy of 42ND STREET- right up to the last-minute switch in players before the curtain goes up (although in this film, it's Dick Powell instead of Ruby Keeler). But its astringent look at trying to play Tin Pan Alley smack in the middle of the Depression gives it a very adult and tragic significance. It still has the Berkley dazzle- from the "Shadow Waltz" chorus girls (and electric violins) to the now-legendary "We're In The Money" dress rehearsal fronted by a pre-Astaire Ginger Rogers. (I was a teenager when my mother mentioned that one verse of this song was actually sung in Pig Latin- and I swore for twenty-five years that she was pulling my chain. It is one of the cleverest vocal interludes I've ever seen and heard.) But the three girls implied in the film's title- Ruby Keeler, Aline McMahon, and especially the sharp, smart, and gorgeous Joan Blondell- are the best things in the movie. And Blondell fronts the sublime finale number "Forgotten Man-" which pays tribute to the men (and women) of WWI and the ironies which followed. The staging of it- the marching which goes from triumphant to tragic, the torchy, gospel-like vocal of Etta Moten (the black woman sitting in the window), and the pullback shot of everyone coming downstage at the fadeout- is truly spectacular.
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- movibuf1962
- Oct 31, 2003
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- Budget
- $433,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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