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Gold Diggers of 1935 is a Warner Bros. movie musical directed and choregraphed by Busby Berkeley and starring Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, Adolphe Menjou, Winifred Shaw, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh. The film is best known for the famous "Lullaby of Broadway" production number, which features Shaw singing the song which won Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics) an Academy Award. Kaleidoscopic Choreography from Footlight Parade, 1933 Busby Berkeley (November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976), born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. ...
Richard Ewing Dick Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, and director. ...
Gloria Stuart (born July 4, 1910) is an Academy Award nominated American stage, television and film actress and artist. ...
Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor of French and Irish descent. ...
Wini Shaw (February 25, 1910 - May 2, 1982) was an American actress, dancer and singer. ...
Hugh Herbert (b. ...
Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 - October 28, 1939) was an Academy Award-winning American actress in the silent film era of the late 1910s and 1920s through the 1930s, during the Great Depression. ...
Francis Curray McHugh (May 23, 1898 - September 11, 1981) was an American film and television actor. ...
Harry Warren (December 24, 1893 - September 22, 1981) was a music composer of many different styles. ...
Al Dubin (June 10, 1891 - February 11, 1945) was a Swiss-born lyricist. ...
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The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ...
Kaleidoscopic Choreography from Footlight Parade, 1933 Busby Berkeley (November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976), born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. ...
Richard Ewing Dick Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, and director. ...
Gloria Stuart (born July 4, 1910) is an Academy Award nominated American stage, television and film actress and artist. ...
Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor of French and Irish descent. ...
Wini Shaw (February 25, 1910 - May 2, 1982) was an American actress, dancer and singer. ...
Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 - October 28, 1939) was an Academy Award-winning American actress in the silent film era of the late 1910s and 1920s through the 1930s, during the Great Depression. ...
Hugh Herbert (b. ...
Francis Curray McHugh (May 23, 1898 - September 11, 1981) was an American film and television actor. ...
Lullaby of Broadway is a popular song. ...
Harry Warren (December 24, 1893 - September 22, 1981) was a music composer of many different styles. ...
Al Dubin (June 10, 1891 - February 11, 1945) was a Swiss-born lyricist. ...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
Gold Diggers of 1935 was the third film of the Gold Diggers series of movie musicals, after Gold Diggers of Broadway in 1929 (now lost) and Gold Diggers of 1933 a remake of the earlier film.[1] Both the original and the 1933 film made a great deal of money for Warner Bros., and Gold Diggers of 1935 was an attempt to repeat that success. It was followed by Gold Diggers of 1937 and Gold Diggers in Paris.
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Gold Diggers of 1933 is an American musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with choreography by Busby Berkeley. ...
Plot
In the resort of Lake Waxapahachie, the swanky Wentworth Plaza is where the rich all congregate, and where the tips flow like wine. Handsome Dick Curtis (Dick Powell) is working his way through medical school as a desk clerk, and when rich, penny-pinching Mrs. Prentiss (Alice Brady) offers to pay him to escort her daughter Ann (Gloria Stuart) for the summer, Dick can't say no - even his fiancee, Arline Davis (Dorothy Dare) thinks he should do it. Mrs. Prentiss wants Ann to marry eccentric middle-aged millionaire T. Mosley Thorpe (Hugh Herbert), who's a world-renowned expert on snuffboxes, but Ann has other ideas. Meanwhile her brother, Humbolt (Frank McHugh) has a weakness for a pretty face: he's been married and bought out of trouble by his mother several times.
Every summer, Mrs. Prentiss produces a charity show for the "Milk Fund", and this year she hires the flamboyant and conniving Russian dance director Nicolai Nicoleff (Adolphe Menjou) to direct the show. The parsimonious Mrs. Prentiss wants to spend the least amount possible, but Nicoleff and his set designer Schultz (Joseph Cawthorn) want to be as extravagant as they can, so they can rake off more money for themselves, and for the hotel manager (Louis Lamson) and the hotel stenographer (Glenda Farrell), who's blackmailing the hapless snuffbox fancier Thorpe.
Of course, Dick and Ann fall in love, Humbolt marries Arline, and the show ends up costing Mrs. Prentiss an arm and a leg, but in the end she realizes that having a doctor in the family will save money in the long run.
Cast Richard Ewing Dick Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, and director. ...
Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor of French and Irish descent. ...
Gloria Stuart (born July 4, 1910) is an Academy Award nominated American stage, television and film actress and artist. ...
Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 - October 28, 1939) was an Academy Award-winning American actress in the silent film era of the late 1910s and 1920s through the 1930s, during the Great Depression. ...
Hugh Herbert (b. ...
Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) was an American film actress. ...
Francis Curray McHugh (May 23, 1898 - September 11, 1981) was an American film and television actor. ...
Grant Mitchell (June 17, 1874- May 1, 1957) was an American stage actor on Broadway and character actor in B films of the 1930s and 1940s. ...
Wini Shaw (February 25, 1910 - May 2, 1982) was an American actress, dancer and singer. ...
Songs The songs in Gold Diggers of 1935 were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), and the two production numbers were staged by Busby Berkeley. Harry Warren (December 24, 1893 - September 22, 1981) was a music composer of many different styles. ...
Al Dubin (June 10, 1891 - February 11, 1945) was a Swiss-born lyricist. ...
Kaleidoscopic Choreography from Footlight Parade, 1933 Busby Berkeley (November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976), born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. ...
"I'm Going Shopping with You," - Sung by Dick Powell to Gloria Stuart, this is a montage of scenes of Stuart shopping for everything from lingere to jewelry, much to the dismay of her penny-pinching mother, Alice Brady.
"The Words Are in My Heart" - This elaborate Busby Berkeley production number utilized 56 white grand pianos, which were moved around the sound stage by stagehands underneath the piano-shells, dressed in black.[2]
"Lullaby of Broadway" - One of the most famous Busby Berkeley numbers is actually a short film-within-a-film, which tells the story of a Broadway Baby who plays all night and sleeps all day. It opens with a head shot of singer Wini Shaw against a black background, then the camera pulls back and up, and Shaw's head becomes the Big Apple, New York City. As everyone rushes off to work, Shaw returns home from her night's carousing and goes to sleep. When she awakens, that night, we follow her and her beau (Dick Powell) from club to club, with elaborate large cast tap numbers, until she is pushed off a balcony to her death. The sequence ends with a return to Shaw's head, as she sings the end of the song.
Production Gold Diggers of 1935 was in production at Warner Bros. Burbank studios until 14 January 1935, and was released on 15 March of that year. During production a chorus dancer, Jack Grieves, died on the set due to acute indigestion.[2] Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ...
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The film was Busby Berkeley's first time at the helm of a film as the official director, although he had his own unit at Warners to do the elaborate production numbers he conceived, designed, staged and directed, which were the major elements of the Warners musicals of that period.
Awards Harry Warren and Al Dubin received an 1936 Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lullaby of Broadway", and Busby Berkely was nominated for Best Dance Direction.[3] See also: 1935 in film 1936 1937 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon September 28 - The Marx Brothers Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming Top grossing films in North America Red River Valley Academy Awards Best Picture: The Great...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
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Gold Diggers of 1933 is an American musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with choreography by Busby Berkeley. ...
Notes - ^ Warner Bros. had earlier filmed the same story as a silent film, The Gold Diggers in 1923.
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See also: 1922 in film 1923 1924 in film 1920s in film years in film film // Events April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers. ...
External links | Busby Berkeley: Choreographer and director | Broadway
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