Gold Diggers Of 1933

Starring: Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, et al.

A Broadway producer has the talent, the tunes, the theater and everything else he needs to put on a show -- except the dough. Not to worry, say Ginger Rogers and the other leggy chorines decked out in giant coins. Everyone will soon be singing "We're in the Money." Soon after 42nd Street, the brothers Warner again kicked the Depression blues out the stage door and into a back alley. Mervyn Le Roy directs the snappy non-musical portions involving three wonderfully silly love matches (including Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler). And Busby Berkeley brings his peerless magic to the production numbers, his camera swooping and gliding to showstoppers that are naughty ("Pettin' in the Park"), neon-lit ("The Shadow Waltz") and soul-searing ("Remember My Forgotten Man"). Solid cinema gold!

• Format: Blu-ray
• UPC: 883929788989
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Warner
• Director: Mervyn LeRoy
• Starring: Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Warren William, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers, Sterling Holloway, Ferdinand Gottschalk
• Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 5.3" x 0.4"

Customer Reviews

“Remember My Forgotten Man”

We started with the song “We’re in the Money” even in pig Latin. The year is 1933, and in the great depression. Barney Hopkins (Ned Sparks) wants to put on a show that can employ many people. Brad Roberts (Dick Powell), a composer with a $25 a week income, offers to put up the money. However, he is harboring a secret and does not want to be exposed. That secret will soon be the basis of a plot by three so-called gold diggers (Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, and Ruby Keeler) to get even with their besmirchers. “Gold Diggers of 1933” is quintessential of the Busby Berkeley formula. This will be repeated but never duplicated for many years to come. No one element separately says this is Berkeley, except maybe the message. Most of us will never really know what it was like to live in the 30’s, but we can relive the fun part through the movies. For some of us, the issues being depicted are being lived today.