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Release Date: 2012
Cast: Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel, Robert McWade, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Edward J. Nugent, Ned Sparks, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins, George Brent, George E. Stone, Ruby Keeler ...MORE
Cast: Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel, Robert McWade, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Edward J. Nugent, Ned Sparks, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins, George Brent, George E. Stone, Ruby Keeler, Warner Baxter ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Musical, Musical Comedy, Backstage Musical, Black-And-White, Pre-Code
42nd Street is a 1933 American Warner Bros. musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), and the script was written by Rian James and James Seymour, with Whitney Bolton (uncredited), from the novel by Bradford Ropes.
The film is a lively backstage musical, and was very successful at the box office.42nd Street was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1934, and in 1998 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being... MORE
42nd Street is a 1933 American Warner Bros. musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), and the script was written by Rian James and James Seymour, with Whitney Bolton (uncredited), from the novel by Bradford Ropes.
The film is a lively backstage musical, and was very successful at the box office.42nd Street was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1934, and in 1998 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2006 this film ranked 13th on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals.
It is 1932, during the early days of the Depression, and Broadway producers Jones (Robert McWade) and Barry (Ned Sparks) put on Pretty Lady, a musical starring beautiful Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels). Her "sugar daddy," industrialist Abner Dillon (Guy Kibbee), is the show's "angel" (financial backer). But while she is busy keeping Dillon both hooked and at arm's length, she still secretly meets her old vaudeville partner and lover, the out-of-work Pat LESS
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