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Gold Diggers of 1933 is an American pre-Code musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley .
The entire song is never performed in the 1933 movie, though it introduces the film in the opening scene (wherein the performance is busted up by the police). Later in the movie, the tune is heard off stage in rehearsal as the director continues a discussion on camera about other matters. The lyrics were written by Al Dubin and the music by ...
The following is a list of highest-grossing musical film by year. Disney tops the list 29 times. All films in Saturday Night Fever , Beauty and the Beast , The Lion King , Rio and The Little Mermaid are on the list, along with Alvin and the Chipmunks franchises are the most represented franchises each have two films on the list.
The musical Gold Diggers of 1933 is one of the outstanding examples of the genre that Warner Brothers released in the thirties. [88] While the "surreal, geometric, often erotically charged" dance stagings by choreographer Busby Berkeley dominate the picture, Warner's musicals were distinguished enough, according to historian John Baxter, "to be ...
Gold Diggers of 1937 is a Warner Bros. movie musical directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Dick Powell and Joan Blondell , who were married at the time, with Glenda Farrell and Victor Moore .
Gold Diggers of 1935 is an American Warner Bros. musical film directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley, his directorial debut. It stars Dick Powell , Adolphe Menjou , Gloria Stuart , and Alice Brady , and features Hugh Herbert , Glenda Farrell , Frank McHugh , Joseph Cawthorn , Grant Mitchell , Dorothy Dare , and Winifred Shaw .
Harry Warren introduced by Ginger Rogers in the film Gold Diggers of 1933 "Weep No More, My Baby" w. Edward Heyman m. John Green. Introduced by Billy House and Una Vilon in the musical Murder at the Vanities "When It's Lamp Lighting Time in the Valley" w.m. Joe Lyons, Sam C. Hart & The Vagabonds "When You Were the Girl on the Scooter" w. Mack ...
Berkeley was born in Los Angeles, California, to Francis Enos (who died when Busby was eight) and stage actress Gertrude Berkeley (1864–1946). Among Gertrude's friends, and a performer in Tim Frawly's Stock company run by Busby Berkeley's father, were actress Amy Busby from whom Berkeley gained the appellation "Buzz" or "Busby" [2] [3] and actor William Gillette, then only four years away ...