Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
Wini Shaw
- Winny Shaw
- (as Winifred Shaw)
Avis Adair
- Chorus Girl
- (uncredited)
Margret Angel
- Chorus Girl
- (uncredited)
Cecil Arden
- Chorus girl
- (uncredited)
Arthur Aylesworth
- Head Bartender
- (uncredited)
Monica Bannister
- Chorus Girl
- (uncredited)
Fern Barry
- Chorus Girl
- (uncredited)
Eleanor Bayley
- Chorus Girl
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- Goofs(at around 59 mins) Many people pay $25 each for tickets to the charity musical; the money being paid is clearly in pesos. In fact, each of the top bills states 'Vente Pesos' and obviously are not American bills. Yet, all the dialog refers to 'dollars', and there is no indication that the resort at Lake Waxapahachie is anything but an American resort.
- ConnectionsEdited into Busby Berkeley and the Gold Diggers (1969)
- SoundtracksI'm Goin' Shoppin' with You
(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Played during the opening credits and often in the score
Performed by Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart
Featured review
I love Busby Berkeley BUT...
... this is not Gold Diggers of 1933, Dames, or Footlight Parade. The story is downright disappointing. I realize that the story is not the main point of a musical, but still, the narrative and its execution here are inane. The reason is not that Warner Brothers or Berkeley or Warren and Dubin have lost their touch, but the Production Code put a dreary blanket of censorship over American films made after 1934 that was impossible to evade. Gloria Stuart, as the poor little rich girl being pushed into a loveless marriage with a middle aged millionaire with a goofy hobby, is lovely, but she just doesn't have the precode bite of the stunning Joan Blondell or the fascinating Ginger Rogers, nor is she the good girl shrouded in an air of mystery like Ruby Keeler.
There are only two decent Busby Berkeley numbers here. The first is "The Words are In My Heart", which has those interesting white pianos. To say that "Lullaby of Broadway", the second of two really interesting numbers here, is great, is an understatement. It combines eroticism, surrealism, and flat out psychedelicism to be one of the high points of the Hollywood musical. And like all of Berkeley's numbers, this is supposed to be a staged number but could only be done in film. How else do you transform the face of Winny Shaw into the island of Manhattan and back again? Not in the rest of his career, IMHO, will Busby Berkeley top this number. Without it this film would probably only be a 5/10. With "Lullaby of Broadway" it rises to a 7/10.
There are only two decent Busby Berkeley numbers here. The first is "The Words are In My Heart", which has those interesting white pianos. To say that "Lullaby of Broadway", the second of two really interesting numbers here, is great, is an understatement. It combines eroticism, surrealism, and flat out psychedelicism to be one of the high points of the Hollywood musical. And like all of Berkeley's numbers, this is supposed to be a staged number but could only be done in film. How else do you transform the face of Winny Shaw into the island of Manhattan and back again? Not in the rest of his career, IMHO, will Busby Berkeley top this number. Without it this film would probably only be a 5/10. With "Lullaby of Broadway" it rises to a 7/10.
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- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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