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42nd Street
42nd Street is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon, with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It stars an ensemble cast of Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers.
Plot
In 1932 during the depths of the Great Depression noted Broadway producers Jones and Barry are staging Pretty Lady, a musical starring Dorothy Brock. She is involved with wealthy Abner Dillon, the show's financial backer, but she is secretly seeing her old vaudeville partner Pat Denning, who is out of work.
Cast
- Allen Jenkins
- Bebe Daniels
- Charles Lane
- Dave O'Brien
- Dennis O'Keefe
- Dick Powell
- Edward Nugent
- George Brent
- George E. Stone
- George Irving
- Ginger Rogers
- Guy Kibbee
- Henry B. Walthall
- Jack La Rue
- Kermit Maynard
- Louise Beavers
- Lyle Talbot
- Ned Sparks
- Robert McWade
- Ruby Keeler
- Ruth Eddings
- Toby Wing
- Tom Kennedy
- Una Merkel
- Wallis Clark
- Warner Baxter
More details
| author | James Seymour Rian James |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Lloyd Bacon |
| editor | Frank Ware Thomas Pratt |
| genre | romance |
| keywords | broadway producer dance director dressing room financial backer getting married great depression hear impoverish married morning open out of work philadelphia shadow stock market crash string theater audience vaudeville wall street crash of 1929 |
| musicBy | Harry Warren |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Sound |
| producer | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| theme | backstage musical musical romantic musical stag trick |