Greatest classic films collection, Busby Berkeley musicals

The Resource Greatest classic films collection, Busby Berkeley musicals
Label
Greatest classic films collection, Busby Berkeley musicals
Title part
Busby Berkeley musicals
Statement of responsibility
Warner Bros. Pictures
Title variation
Busby Berkeley musicals
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • 42nd Street: A Broadway producer sends in an understudy when his star twists her ankle
  • Gold diggers of 1937: 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 Genevieve Larkin and Sally LaVerne give up their tap shoes for gold digging and take up with executives in a theatrical production company that, unbeknowst to them or the director J.J. Hobath, is going bankrupt due to poor management
  • Cagney stars as Chester Kent, a diligent musical comedy director who is continually warding off snoopers hired by his competitors to steal his ideas
  • Dames: Three relatives stand to inherit a multi-millionaire's money if they turn against his pet hate, the theater
Member of
Cataloging source
IF9
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
  • 42nd Street: directed by Lloyd Bacon
  • Gold diggers of 1937: directed by Lloyd Bacon ; musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley
  • Footlight parade: directed by Lloyd Bacon ; numbers created and staged by Busby Berkeley
  • Dames: directed by Ray Enright ; numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley
Dewey number
791.43/75
Intended audience
Not rated
Language note
Audio: English mono.; subtitles: English, French, Spanish
LC call number
PN1997.A1
LC item number
A1455 2010
PerformerNote
  • 42nd Street: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel
  • Gold diggers of 1937: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell
  • Footlight parade: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell
  • Dames: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts
Runtime
384
Technique
live action

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