42nd Street (Motion picture) Dames (Motion picture) Gold diggers of 1937. Footlight parade.
Notes:
42nd Street: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent. 42nd Street special features include: 3 shorts: Harry Warren: America's foremost composer, Hollywood newsreel and A trip through a Hollywood studio ; notes on Busby Berkeley. Gold diggers of 1937: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore. Gold diggers of 1937 special features include: historical short The romance of Louisiana ; 2 cartoons: Plenty of money and you and Speaking of the weather ; 2 excerpts from 1929's Gold diggers of Broadway ; theatrical trailer. Footlight parade: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler. Footlight parade special features include: featurette Footlight parade: music for the decades ; 2 shorts: Rambling 'round radio row #8 and Vaudeville reel #1 ; 2 cartoons: Honeymoon Hotel and Young and healthy ; theatrical trailer. Dames: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler. Dames special features include: featurette Busby Berkeley's kaleidoscopic eyes ; 3 shorts: And she learned about dames, Good morning, Eve and Melody master: Don Redman and his orchestra ; 2 cartoons: I only have eyes for you and Those beautiful dames ; audio-only bonus: Direct from Hollywood radio promo ; theatrical trailer.
Contents:
42nd Street -- Gold diggers of 1937 -- Footlight parade -- Dames.
Summary:
42nd Street (1933, 89 min.): The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingénue, all set to a standout musical score. Gold diggers of 1937 (1936, 101 min.): Rosmer Peck is an insurance agent with musical ambitions who becomes romantically involved with Norma Perry, a showgirl who has given up spangles for a stenographer's pad. Her friends give up their tap shoes for gold digging and take up with executives in a theatrical production company that, unknown to them or the director, is going bankrupt. Footlight parade (1933, 104 min.): Chester Kent is a diligent musical comedy director who is continually warding off snoopers hired by his competitors to steal his ideas. When his latest show is canceled in favor of a talking picture, he turns to staging musical prologues to play before the features in moviehouses. Dames (1934, 90 min.): A musical comedy film about an eccentric multimillionaire who hates musicals, his granddaughter who stars in them, and their friends and family members caught in the middle.
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