42nd Street
The Greatest Musical hit the Screen Has Ever Known!
42nd Street (1933)
Timing:
1:29 (89 min)
6.9/10
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Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Budget
$439 000
Revenue
$2 147 483 647
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Short description
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the end of the dance to the song “42nd Street,” a curtain with the word “asbestos” is shown. Viewers in the 21st century may only know that this refers to a mineral composite that causes mesothelioma (a type of cancer), whereas in the first half of the 20th century, asbestos was used as a fire-retardant component in building materials; theaters in that era had asbestos curtains that were used to separate the auditorium from the stage in case of fire. From this perspective, the presence of the asbestos curtain in the film is a hint that, once hidden behind the curtain, Billy and Peggy will be getting up to something “hot.”
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