Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Joan Blondell
Carol King
Aline MacMahon
Trixie Lorraine
Ruby Keeler
Polly Parker
Dick Powell
Brad Roberts
Warren William
J. Lawrence Bradford
Guy Kibbee
Faneuil H. Peabody
Ned Sparks
Barney Hopkins
Ginger Rogers
Fay Fortune
Etta Moten
'Remember My Forgotten Man' Singer (uncredited)
Robert Agnew
Dance Director
Charles C. Wilson
Deputy (uncredited)
Loretta Andrews
Gold Digger
Busby Berkeley
Call Boy (uncredited) / Choreographer / Director
Charles Lane
Society Reporter (uncredited)
Billy Barty
Baby in 'Pettin' in the Park' Number (uncredited)
Tammany Young
Gigolo Eddie (uncredited)
Maynard Holmes
First Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Sterling Holloway
Second Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Complaining Club Member (uncredited)
Theresa Harris
Woman in 'Pettin' in the Park' Number (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Man in 'Pettin' in the Park' Number (uncredited)
Virginia Dabney
Gold Digger (uncredited)
Jayne Shadduck
Gold Digger (uncredited)
Bee Stevens
Gold Digger (uncredited)
Anita Thomson
Gold Digger (uncredited)
Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Gold Digger (uncredited)
Jane Wyman
Gold Digger (uncredited)
Joan Barclay
Gold Digger (uncredited)
Patricia Douglas
Dance (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
Theatregoer (uncredited)
Bill Elliott
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Mervyn LeRoy
Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 27, 1933
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 37m
Budget$433,000
Box Office$3,200,000
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Wiki.
Gold Diggers of 1933 is a pre-Code Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It stars Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell, and features Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers.
The story is based on the play The Gold Diggers by Avery Hopwood, which ran for 717 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920. The play was made into a silent film in 1923 by David Belasco, the producer of the Broadway play, as The Gold Diggers, starring Hope Hampton and Wyndham Standing, and again as a talkie in 1929, directed by Roy Del Ruth. That film, Gold Diggers of Broadway, which starred Nancy Welford and Conway Tearle, was one of the biggest box office hits of that year, and Gold Diggers of 1933 was one of the top-grossing films of 1933. This version of Hopwood's play was written by James Seymour and Erwin S. Gelsey, with additional dialogue by David Boehm and Ben Markson.
In 2003, Gold Diggers of 1933 was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".