Gold Diggers of 1933
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Short description
Gold Diggers of 1933 is set during the Great Depression, when Broadway's theatres have gone dark and its performers are out of work. Three showgirls, Carol, Trixie and Polly, are struggling to survive when a wealthy young songwriter, Brad, offers to back a new musical. His money revives the production, but his respectable family disapproves of his involvement with the theatre and its chorus girls. The three friends, meanwhile, have plans of their own for the man behind the show, hoping to keep it running at his expense. The film mixes comedy and drama with large-scale musical numbers.
Mervyn LeRoy directed the film, the fourth of the fourteen features he made, following Broadminded and preceding Tugboat Annie. Busby Berkeley also directed on the production. Erwin S. Gelsey and James Seymour wrote the screenplay for Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation. Warren William plays Lawrence, alongside Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Guy Kibbee; ninety-three performers are credited. The film opened in May 1933 and took about three million dollars worldwide.
On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.7 from around ten thousand votes, and on TMDB a rating of 7.2 from a much smaller number of votes. A critics' rating of 8.8 from thirteen reviews places it above both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film actually had two directors: Mervyn LeRoy was the primary director, and Busby Berkeley was not only a choreographer and stage director, but also the director of the film's musical sequences.
- On March 10, 1933, the southern part of California was struck by an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale. At that moment, Busby Berkeley (1895-1976) was filming one of the dance numbers on the set of Warner Brothers in Burbank, California. Due to the tremors, short circuits occurred on the set, and the lights went out. Berkeley himself barely managed to stay on the camera crane. Many of the chorus girls involved in the number were on platforms over 9 meters above the floor, and Berkeley shouted in the darkness for them to not stand, but to sit on the platforms and wait for the doors to the soundstage to be opened from the outside, and for something to become visible.
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