gold diggers of 1937
busby berkley' s gold diggers of 1937. chorus in formation with joan blondell in foreground .
busby berkley' s gold diggers of 1937. chorus in formation with joan blondell in ...
its outrageous success led to a series of gold diggers films: arguably including dames (gold diggers of 1934 in all but name), as well as gold diggers of 1935 (poor plot, jawdropping songs), this one - actually released in 1936 - and gold diggers in paris .
1936 - publicity photo of dick powell for his new film' gold diggers of 1937.' headh ...
warner bros. seems to have crafted this trailer to send a single message: gold diggers fans, we hear you. the nostalgic tour of past gold diggers films— gold diggers of broadway, gold diggers of 1933, and even busby berkeley’s gold diggers of 1935 —will send a shiver up the spine of any would - be digger, and it seems likely that gold diggers of 1937 will be jam - packed with easter eggs and clues about where the series might go next. (maybe gay paree ?) but would it be too much to ask for a true fans–only nod to 1923’s the gold diggers ?
theatrical trailer for the 1937 warner bros film
gold diggers of 1937
. the trailer is unusual as it briefly shows footage from the now - lost 1929 film
gold diggers of broadway
. this trailer is public domain, even though the films shown are not public domain .
1936 - publicity photo of dick powell for his new film' gold diggers of 1937.' headh and shoulders portrait of powell with his arm over the back of a chair .
paul muni in the life of emile zola (1937), directed by william dieterle .
gangsters and gold diggers: old new york, the jazz age, and the birth of broadway, four walls eight windows (new york, ny), 2003 .
there were audible gasps throughout the glamorous chinese theatre in hollywood when the announcer said, “with your old friends dick powell and joan blondell! ” not only was blondell sorely missed in the gold diggers of 1935, she and co - star powell have gotten married since they shared the screen in gold diggers of 1933. did the real - life sweethearts bring a new realism to their love scenes in this, the most adult gold diggers film yet? warner bros. execs assure me they did !
to the strictly biased fancier of powell - blondell opera .
gold diggers of 1937 ,
which the warner brothers disguised as santa claus, tenderly deposited last night at the strand theatre, may well be a collector' s item. view full article in timesmachine »
pretty good entry in the gold diggers series. not bitingly humorous like 1933, but not lacking in the leading lady department like 1935. let’s not even discuss in paris .
this time round the focus is back on the gold diggers & the broadway scene itself. dick powell plays a life insurance salesman who lands the deal of a lifetime with a theatre mogul .
dateline: hollywood, usa! the trailer for gold diggers of 1937 has silver screen fanatics in a positive frenzy as they flock to theaters to get their first glimpse of the next installment in warner bros. ’ beloved franchise. and bad luck for mgm snobs: it looks the music, mischief, and merriment in this warner bros. holiday spectacular will finally put gold diggers on the same playing field as the broadway melody cinematic universe. here’s everything we learned about the upcoming film from its trailer .
chicago tribune, may 19, 1985, herbert gold, review of war cries over avenue c, p. 46 .
what' s a chorine to do after her show flops? become a gold digger! the cuties do so en masse as the gold diggers of 1937, kicking depression era blues in the keester. dick powell plays an insurance agent with musical ambitions, joan blondell is a showgirl who gives up spangles for a stenographer' s pad and... well, who watches any diggers for its plot? instead, watch as dance creator busby berkeley turns a garden party into a tap - happy romp. as blondell leads leggy soldiers in a banner - waving, precision - formation all' s fair in love and war spectacle that' s berkeley at his showy best. as powell croons a gold diggers' lullaby with plenty of money and you. in short, plenty of reasons to watch. again and again .
after the popular 42nd street, warner bros made their musical masterpiece, a depression - era beauty called gold diggers of 1933 that mixed somewhat risqué comedy with astonishing production numbers, including the greatest one ever filmed: remember my forgotten man .
for further reading, here’s an article on the film from the movie magg blog which includes some background information about the gold diggers series – it discusses the whole plot. i’ve also put a link to the trailer below .
charyn, jerome 1937– .
contemporary authors, new revision series. . retrieved july 09, 2018 from urltoken urltoken
was a major hit, and muni finally won an oscar for best actor. after playing a chinese farmer in the 1937
i didn’t care for the final “love and war” musical sequence in this film – like you, i found the treatment of its subject queasy. it also goes on far too long. there’s a desperation in the later gold digger films, beginning with gold diggers of 1935, in which unlikable characters cook up nasty scams that aren’t fun to watch. i think the cycle was running out of steam .
( from left, seated at table) joseph schildkraut, paul muni, and gale sondergaard in the life of emile zola (1937) .
i can’t compare this to the other gold digger films because i haven’t seen them. i enjoyed this one! lots of fun !
sorry to be so slow in replying, g. o. m (life has been interfering with blogging !), but thanks very much for the thoughtful comment. i’ve just seen gold diggers of 1933 on the big screen, and the difference in the way the war is treated in the great ‘my forgotten man’ finalecertainly shows up the queasiness of the ‘love and war’ number. you make a fascinating point about the desperation in the later films – i haven’t seen gold diggers of 1935 as yet, but will bear it in mind when i do .
if there’s one thing the trailer for gold diggers of 1937 makes clear, it’s that the differences between this and mgm’s broadway melody franchise are vanishingly small. though studio bigwigs are thrilled that the narcissism of small differences is producing brand loyalists who’ll eagerly buy tickets to any old thing they slap the gold diggers or broadway melody label on, it’s more of a happy accident than a design—and they’re certainly not paying critics to write bad reviews of other studios’ movies. in fact, if pressed, studio chiefs find the fan rivalry between diggers and melodyheads kind of embarrassing for everyone involved—but if there’s money in it, they’ll still be stoking its flames 80 years from now. besides, as one producer told me, things could always get worse. “at least i’m not at universal, ” he said. “those poor saps have to pretend to care about flash gordon serials! ”
the titles for the film’s four new songs have been revealed, and they sound incredible: “speaking of the weather, ” “all’s fair in love and war, ” “let’s put our heads together, ” and “with plenty of money and you. ” though we get to hear powell sing a snippet of “with plenty of money and you, ” we’ll have to wait until the sheet music is released to get a sense of exactly what direction the gold diggers universe music is going next. judging from what we can hear in the trailer, though, this is going to be the toe - tappingest gold diggers yet .
de la película
gold diggers
( buscadores de oro) (1937) warner bros. tema
love is fair en love and war
. película musical dirigido por lloyd bacon con números musicales creados y dirigidos por busby berkeley, y protagonizada por dick powell y joan blondell. la película incluye canciones de los equipos de harold arlen y ey harburg y harry warren y al dubin. extraído de: urltoken
charyn, jerome 1937– .
contemporary authors, new revision series. . encyclopedia. com. (july 9, 2018). urltoken
what a difference a few years makes! largely ditching the behind the scenes narrative structure of 42nd street, footlight parade, and dames, gold diggers of 1937 (actually released in 1936) also had the misfortune of being made after the strict enforcement of the hays code was in full effect. the film is simply a lot less provocative and daring than its predecessors and as a result, it is the most reigned in and tame. unfortunately the incendiary material is also what makes these films so much fun .
? hopwood film festival. during winter term, the university will screen films inspired by hopwood himself or written by hopwood winners. ” gold diggers of 1933, ” the iconic film based on hopwood’s play” the gold diggers, ” will be the first. the film starred ginger rodgers, joan blondell and dick powell and contained such classic tunes as” we’re in the money. ” u - m english rofessor peter bauland will teach a mini - course on the films. open to the public, the films will be shown monday evenings in the michigan theater at 7 p. m. here are the films :
what' s a chorine to do after her show flops? become a gold digger! the cuties do so en masse as the gold diggers of 1937, kicking depression era blues in the keester. dick powell plays an insurance agent with musical ambitions, joan blondell is a showgirl who gives up spangles for a stenographer' s pad and … well, who watches any diggers for its plot? instead, watch as dance creator busby berkeley turns a garden party into a tap - happy romp. blondell leads leggy soldiers in a banner - waving, precision - formation
all' s fair in love and war
spectacle that' s berkeley at his showy best as powell croons a lullaby ,
with plenty of money and you .
in short, there are plenty of reasons to watch again and again .
stanfield, peter .
an excursion into the lower depths: hollywood, urban primitivism, and
st. louis blues ,
1929 - 1937 .
features 21 song - and - dance spectaculars staged and directed by busby berkeley, from movie musicals released in the 1930' s. included are excerpts from
42nd street
( 1933) ,
gold diggers of 1933
( 1933) ,
fashions of 1934
( 1934) ,
in caliente
( 1933) ,
footlight parade
( 1933) ,
wonder bar
( 1934) ,
dames
( 1934) ,
gold diggers of 1935
( 1935), and
gold diggers of 1937
( 1937). contents: shuffle off to buffalo - - young and healthy - - 42nd street - - we' re in the money - - pettin' in the park - - shadow waltz - - remember my forgotten man - - ah, the moon is here - - sittin' on a backyard fence - - honeymoon hotel - - by a waterfall - - shanghai lil - - spin a little web of dreams - - don' t say goodnight - - the girl at the ironing board - - i only have eyes for you - - dames - - the words are in my heart - - lullaby of broadway - - the lady in red - - all is fair in love and war. cast: : dick powell, ruby keeler, ginger rogers, joan blondell, james cagney. 163 min .
berkeley' s 42nd street was a lot better than footlight parade, and gold diggers' 33 was slightly better than that. this one' s better still! a little too pathetic of course, especially foolish in the middle, as a zippy little' 30s musical, with the constant jokes just barely verging on impropriety or irritation, but so, so, so cute. gold diggers' 37 is cute! cute. with the drinking, and the handsome dames, and money and life insurance and romance in a gummy and simple story, and the witty gentlemen hoofing. it' s sort of thin man - like in a good way. built smartly .
as usual with films which have dates in the title, gold diggers of 1937 was actually made the previous year. it stars joan blondell, one of my favourite actresses, opposite her real - life husband of the time, dick powell. there is a lot of chemistry between them, not surprisingly, and i found that i warmed to powell in this more than usual. maybe i’m starting to get his appeal, which had previously been a mystery to me, or maybe it’s because his character in this one is easy to like – a bored, hard - up insurance salesman who dreams of making it as a singer .
…house of rothschild, 1934) and paul muni (the life of emile zola, 1937; juarez, 1939) in the united states and charles laughton (alexander korda’s the private life of henry viii, 1933; rembrandt, 1936) in england. …
gangsters and gold diggers: old new york, the jazz age, and the birth of broadway is charyn' s tribute to the oft - depicted golden era of new york city. much of the detail will not be new to the informed reader, though the narrative is liberally sprinkled with tidbits that are generally not considered common knowledge. charyn' s goal may have been to capture in his numerous vignettes the amicable chaos that characterized the city in its glory, but some critics found the offerings too superficial to be useful and the
disorganized narrative ,
as a publishers weekly contributor described it, overwhelming. charyn ended gangsters and gold diggers, according to a kirkus reviews contributor, with
an unsurprising rebuke of what we' re left with
after the glory is gone .
hopwood, a 1905 u - m graduate who popularized the phrase” gold diggers” for a play by the same name to be performed by the u - m theatre & drama department this february, wanted students competing for hopwood awards to” be allowed the widest possible latitude” and asked that” the new, the unusual, and the radical? be especially encouraged. ”
where some of the gold digger annuals from warner have not been overburdened with heavy story material, the current musical opus gets moving with the advantage of a trim backstage yarn taken from mystery of life, the broadway play by richard maibaum, michael wallach and george haight .
kirkus reviews, june, 2000, review of the black swan, p. 608; may 1, 2002, review of bronx boy, p. 630; october 15, 2003, review of gangsters and gold diggers: old new york, the jazz age, and the birth of broadway, p. 1259; september 1, 2004, review of the green lantern: a romance of stalinist russia, p. 820; august 15, 2005, review of savage shorthand, p. 892; september 1, 2005, review of inside the hornet' s head: an anthology of jewish american writing, p. 932; april 1, 2006, review of raised by wolves: the turbulent art and times of quentin tarantino, p. 331 .
gold diggers in paris (1938) directed by ray enright; musical numbers created and directed by busby berkeley. cast: rudy vallee, rosemary lane, hugh herbert, allen jenkins, gloria dickson, melville cooper, mabel todd, fritz feld, curt bois and the schnickelfritz band. the gold diggers are heading for paris, bringing their feathers, frills, new york tawk - - and ballet shoes! a french diplomat has mistaken 43rd street' s club balle for the american academy ballet, and the chorus cuties aren' t going to turn down a free trip to the city of light over such a tiny misunderstanding. special features: broadway brevities musical short the candid kid; classic cartoons cinderella meets a fella and love and curses; theatrical trailer. 97 min. dvd x177 credits and other information from the internet movie database
joan blondell and glenda farrell pull this one way up. joan was sorely missed in 1935, whereas glenda was great but had little screen time. thankfully, they’re both back and wonderful as usual in 1937 .
victor moore enters the picture scene again back at his old trick of show thefting. in the role of the hypochondriac theatrical producer, he is the trouper of old and easily the comedy life of the party. glenda farrell, a typical gold - digging chorine in the story, works smoothly and for laughable results opposite the pompous show czar .
where some of the gold digger annuals from warner have not been overburdened with heavy story material, the current musical opus gets moving with the advantage of a trim backstage yarn taken from mystery of life, the broadway play by richard maibaum, michael wallach and george haight. cast as a cocksure insurance salesman, dick powell [ … ]
lullaby of broadway: the best of busby berkeley at warner bros. - compilation
derek mong of ohio won his first hopwood, $ 6, 000 for poetry, calling the size of his prize” unheard of” in the world of poetry .
miller, who won his hopwood awards in 1936 and 1937, would go on to write the classic” death of a salesman” and” the crucible, ” standard texts in american literature classes to this day. miller died in 2005 but a u - m theater is being built in his honor .
? feb. 9 - 12, avery hopwood’s” the gold diggers. ” under the direction of philip kerr, the u - m theatre & drama department’s performances of hopwood’s widely popular, long - running 1919 play will take place at the lydia mendelssohn theatre, 7: 30 p. m. feb. 9, 8 p. m. feb. 10 and 11, and 2 p. m. feb. 12. the performances will feature live music by phil ogilvie’s rhythm kings, with musical direction by u - m professor and music historian james dapogny .
personal: born may 13, 1937, in new york, ny; son of sam (a furrier) and fannie charyn; married marlene phillips (a writer), january 24, 1965 (divorced). education: columbia college, b. a. (cum laude), 1959 .
like the other gold digger movies, this one also has a lot of funny moments, and i like that aspect of it. it' s just the songs, which take up a lot of time, that aren' t as great as the original. the original will always be the best of this series. overall this movie is worth watching if you like berkeley musicals, but otherwise not .
despite all the lighthearted music and humour, though, there are hints at an underlying darkness – as there was in berkeley’s earlier films. once again, this movie doesn’t forget about the depression, but weaves a sardonic awareness of its realities into the fun. the theme of money runs all through the film, and is there in the songs, including the gold diggers’ lullaby / with plenty of money and you, and the life insurance song performed by powell at the insurance conference, which features the line “there’ll be pie in the sky when you die”. glenda farrell is even given the line: “it’s so hard to be good under the capitalist system. ”
gold diggers of 1933 (1933) directed by mervyn leroy. cast: warren william, joan blondell, aline macmahon, ruby keeler, dick powell, guy kibbee, ned sparks, ginger rogers. songs, harry warren & al dubin. dick powell and ruby keeler play two young hopefuls struggling to make it on broadway. even falling in love has its hardships, as powell' s high - brow eastern family is determined to break them (and the show) up. more complications set in when his brother falls for keeler' s wise - cracking roommate. special dvd features: new featurettes: 42nd street from book to stage to screen, gold diggers: fdr' s new deal... broadway bound. 3 vintage featurettes: the 42nd street special, rambling round radio row # 2, seasoned greetings. 3 vintage cartoons: i' ve got to sing a torch song, pettin' in the park, we' re in the money and busby berkeley musicals trailer gallery. 99 min. dvd 5317; vhs 999: 434 credits and other information from the internet movie database
publishers weekly, april 26, 1985, review of war cries over avenue c, p. 84; december 7, 1990, penny kaganoff, review of billy budd, kgb, p. 79; march 8, 1991, sybil steinberg, review of elsinore, p. 68; march 16, 1992, review of maria' s girls, p. 67; june 14, 1993, review of montezuma' s man, p. 63; september 19, 1994, review of little angel street, p. 53; september 15, 1997, review of the dark lady from belorusse, p. 64; april 27, 1998, review of death of a tango king, p. 45; may 3, 1999, review of captain kidd, p. 68; may 8, 2000, review of the black swan, p. 213; march 25, 2002, review of bronx boy, p. 50; october 6, 2003, review of gangsters and gold diggers, p. 70; october 18, 2004, review of the green lantern, p. 48; july 25, 2005, review of savage shorthand, p. 55; march 13, 2006, review of raised by wolves, p. 52 .
magazine of fantasy and science fiction, december, 1998, james sallis, review of death of a tango king, p. 33 .
we can see by the end of the 30' s the gold diggers had mined out all the nuggets and get left with a dry hole. . even joan blondell and the evergreen dick powell can' t save this lowball from fizzling. you' ll be u. n. i. t. e. d. (u need insurance to escape death) in your opinion of needing to take out some after suffering through this yarn about enterprising young gentlemen and ladies financing a broadway show using life insurance. there is the great busby berkeley spectacle of course but it' s at the very end and isn' t as clever as in the previous two films .
new deal rhythm (1930 - 1937) (1977) contents: new deal rhythm / with charles
buddy
rogers (8 min .) - - roseland / with ruth etting (12 min .) - - three of radios favorite conductors / with
red
nichols, emery deutsch, ferde grofe (10 min .) - - rhythm saves the day / with the cabin kids, buddy page and his orchestra (11 min .) - - star reporter / with ina ray hutton, donald novis, ted husing, ed paul, betty jane cooper (10 min .). a compilation of panorama soundies which are short musical films, the music videos of their time, made between 1930 and 1937. 999: 2836
casbah (1948) directed by john berry. cast: yvonne decarlo, tony martin, peter lorre, marla toren. a criminal, pepe le moko, eludes capture in the casbah section of algiers until he is lured out of hiding by a beautiful woman in this thrilling musical tale of love and betrayal. based on the novel by detective ashelbe; remake of the french motion picture, pepe le moko (1937). 94 min. 999: 2499 credits and other information from the internet movie database
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gold diggers of 1935 (1935) directed by busby berkeley. cast: dick powell, adolphe menjou, gloria stuart, alice brady, hugh herbert. music and lyrics by harry warren and al dubin. dick powell stars as a young medical student working his way through school in a ritzy new england summer resort. when mrs. prentiss, a wealthy society matron, asks dick to be a summer escort for her beautiful overprotected daughter, they soon fall in love - - and star together in mrs. prentiss' s charity show. this fast - paced comedy provides a showcase for berkeley' s lavish production numbers including the renowned song and dance sequence
lullaby of broadway .
96 min. dvd 5319; vhs 999: 2037 credits and other information from the internet movie database
matthew dessem is brow beat’s nights and weekends editor and the author of a biography of screenwriter and director clyde bruckman .
scheper, jeanne .
of la baker, i am a disciple
: the diva politics of reception .
jacoby, alexander .
the far side of paradise: the style and substance of yolanda and the thief .
jerico (uk, 1937) directed by thornton freeland. cast: paul robeson, henry wilcoxon, wallace ford. paul robeson is in fine voice in this musical drama about a gi who, after he accidentally kills a man, escapes into the desert where he joins an african tribe to avoid punishment. 75 min. dvd 7282 credits and other information from the internet movie database
member: international association of crime writers, pen american center, mystery writers of america, actors studio, phi beta kappa .
jensen, marc .
feed me !
: power struggles and the portrayal of race in little shop of horrors .
career: writer. department of parks, new york, ny, recreation leader, early 1960s; high school english teacher, new york, ny, 1962–64; city college of the city university of new york, new york, ny, lecturer in english, 1965; stanford university, stanford, ca, assistant professor of english, 1965–68; herbert h. lehman college of the city university of new york, bronx, ny, assistant professor, 1968–72, associate professor, 1972–78, professor of english, 1978–80; rice university, houston, tx, mellon visiting professor of english, 1979; princeton university, princeton, nj, visiting professor, 1980, and lecturer in creative writing, 1981–85; city college of the city university of new york, visiting distinguished professor of english, 1988–89; american university of paris, paris, france, professor of film studies, 1995– .
amiable but generic for an hour and a half, then absolutely magical for the final ten minutes. of note: dick powell sports one of the most misguided mustaches in all of cinema in this movie .
also author of the screenplay crayola detective, 1971. contributor of short stories to commentary, mademoiselle, transatlantic review, and other periodicals .
freire - medeiros, bianca
star in the house of mirrors: contrasting images of carmen miranda in brazil and the united states .
dancing on the ceiling (1937) directed by murray roth. a young man follows a pretty girl into her office, which turns out to be a musical dentist office. cute chorus girls attend to the many male customers, and the girl the young man was following is revealed to be the dentist. she gives the young man anesthetic gas and he dreams the dentist and her troupe of nurses are dancing on the ceiling. included on dvd 1367 credits and other information from the internet movie database
many of those who became part of hopwood’s legacy will gather at u - m this year as the university celebrates the program’s 75th anniversary with a series of events to showcase their life’s work as well as hopwood’s .
subscribe to classic trailers: urltoken subscribe to trailers: urltoken subscribe to coming soon: urltoken like us on facebook: urltoken follow us on twitter: urltoken gold diggers of 1937 (1936) official trailer - dick powell, joan blondell musical movie hd stage - producer j. j. horbart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn' t know that his two partners lost the money at the stock market. insurance salesman rosmer peck falls in love with ex chorus - girl joan blondell, who' s friend genevieve tries to land on one of j. j horbat' s partners. they come up with the idea to insure j. j. for $ 1 million, to get the money back when he dies. rosmer sells him the policy. after the insurance company finds out that he' s only a hypochondriac, an attempt to kill him accidently fails, and genevieve falls in love with j. j. but when j. j. is informed that he is putting on a show with no money he has a breakdown. the only possibility to restore his health is putting on the show, in spite of the lack of money. welcome to the fandango movieclips trailer vault channel. where trailers from the past, from recent to long ago, from a time before youtube, can be enjoyed by all. we search near and far for original movie trailer from all decades. feel free to send us your trailer requests and we will do our best to hunt it down .
pauling, geraldine
the psychohistorical significance of shirley temple films: images of the sexualized female child in relation to depression era group fantasy .
ellis, sarah t .
establishing (and re - establishing) a sense of place: musical orientation in the sound of music .
? april 22, 10 a. m. - noon, shaman drum bookshop. release of the hopwood award: 75 years of prized writing and signing of works by hopwood awardees. marking the history of the avery hopwood and jule hopwood award, the u - m press will release its compendium of works by hopwood award - winning writers of note, ” the hopwood awards: 75 years of prized writing, ” edited by nicholas delbanco, andrea beauchamp, and michael barrett with an introduction by delbanco .
in that sense, delbanco said” hopwood is really the father of us all, ” including the past 30 years of growing creative writing programs nationwide .
…a stellar cast—including katharine hepburn, ginger rogers, lucille ball, and adolphe menjou—and a number of memorable scenes, many of which were the result of improvisation, which the director encouraged on most of his productions. the film received an oscar nomination for best picture, and la cava again earned a nod…
star night at the cocoanut grove (1935) several members of mgm' s' galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show. included on dvd 6715 credits and other information from the internet movie database
like all of these hollywood studio products the push is always the final number. features so extraordinary choreography & music, a great musical of its time .
owners and show girls of the bankrupt club ballé are mistaken for the academy ballet of america and are off to paris to compete in an international dance exposition .
linial, christine amos1
pygmalion' s domestication of the hollywood musical .
jenkins, henry .
the strange case of the backflipping senators. in :
booklist, october 1, 1997, mary carroll, review of the dark lady from belorusse: a memoir, p. 301; april 15, 1998, david pitt, review of death of a tango king, p. 1379; april 1, 2002, graceanne a. de - candido, review of bronx boy, p. 1293; october 1, 2005, donna seaman, review of savage shorthand: the life and death of isaac babel, p. 16 .
la habanera (germany, 1937) directed by douglas sirk (detlef sierck). cast: zarah leander, karl martell, ferdinand marian. working at germany' s famed ufa studios under the very noses of the nazi authorities that would later force him into hollywood exile and eminence, sirk transformed a glossy musical vehicle for ufa' s
new garbo
into a dark and intimate anti - colonial melodrama. desperate to escape the
cold swedish minds
of her homeland, beautiful astree falls under the enchanting spell of the caribbean love serenade la habanera and into the arms of puerto rican land baron don pedro de avila. but ten years later, when astree' s old flame arrives in puerto rico, all is far from heavenly. 93 min. dvd 2456 credits and other information from the internet movie database
library journal, september 15, 1997, linda mcewan, review of the dark lady from belorusse, p. 81; april 1, 1998, david keymer, review of death of a tango king, p. 121; may 1, 2000, linda mcewan, review of the black swan, p. 111; september 1, 2005, anthony pucci, review of savage shorthand, p. 140 .
shall we dance (1937) directed by mark sandrich. cast: fred astaire, ginger rogers, edward everett horton, eric blore, jerome cowan. a ballet star (astaire) and a musical revue sensation (rogers) decide to wed and publicly divorce to quash persistent rumors of a secret marriage. once tied, however, perhaps they shouldn' t call the whole thing off. special features: commentary by songwriter hugh martin and pianist kevin cole; new featurette the music of shall we dance; musical short sheik to sheik; classic cartoon toy town hall. 109 min. dvd 4252; vhs 999: 816 credits and other information from the internet movie database
a multimillionaire decides to boycott
filthy
forms of entertainment such as broadway shows .
one of the last great berkeley extravaganzas, and eerily prescient about modern american history .
hollins critic, october, 1977, irving malin, review of the franklin scare .
/ daniel bernardi, editor. minneapolis: university of minnesota press, c2001. (
linial, christine amos .
pygmalion' s domestication of the hollywood musical .
coward, rosalind .
dennis potter and the question of the television author .
hollywood revue of 1929 (1937) directed by charles f. riesner. cast: conrad nagel, jack benny, masters of ceremonies; with john gilbert, norma shearer, joan crawford, bessie love, ukelele ike, laurel & hardy, anita page, nils asther, brox sisiters, natova and company, marion davies, william haines, buster keaton, marie dressler, charles king, polly moran, gus edwards, dane & arthur, gwen lee, the albertina rasch ballet, the rounders, [ lionel barrymore ]. a torrent of talent takes the screen in this first all - star talkie era showcase of heretofore silent - screen players .
everybody sing. everybody dance. or, failing that, everybody step in place during the famed singin' in the rain finale .
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on the avenue (1937) directed by roy del ruth. cast: dick powell, madeleine carroll, alice faye, the ritz brothers, george barbier, alan mowbray, cora witherspoon, darryl f. zanuck. mona merrick infuriates an heiress by savagely portraying her in a hit play. when the show' s producer begins a love affair with the heiress, jealous mona makes her satirical performance even more scathing, setting off fireworks between the couple. 89 min. dvd x685 credits and other information from the internet movie database
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as per usual, wacky hijinks ensue and a couple of intricate dance numbers, too .
students meeting in the hopwood room marvel over how classmate jesmyn ward won $ 16, 900 worth of prizes last spring. master of fine arts student nani mun arrived at u - m from california (by way of south korea) for a shot at a hopwood .
observer review, june 30, 1968, stephen wall, review of going to jerusalem .
- crimes of the past (1990)... angela channing (credit only )
white, david e .
analogies of ignorance in going my way .
in :
directed by roy mack. a group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. they see the various permanent sets that are used for different types of movies, and they appear to watch the filming of several productions in progress. musical numbers from several previous warner bros. technicolor shorts are edited into this short to create the illusion. included on
varsity show (1937) directed by william keighley; finale created and directed by busby berkeley. cast: dick powell, fred waring and his pennsylvanians, ted healy, priscilla lane, rosemary lane, walter catlett, johnny davis, buck and bubbles. broadway impresario chuck daly has suffered through a string of flops. but the kids at his alma mater don' t know that. they' re counting on chuck to turn their varsity show hash into a smash! dick powell leads an a + cast of coed cuties and bmoc, including film - debuting sisters priscilla and rosemary lane and fluty - voiced comic character sterling holloway, in this exhuberant college musical. 80 min. dvd x179 credits and other information from the internet movie database
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the new mystery: the international association of crime writers' essential crime writing of the late twentieth century, illustrated by vidal centero, dutton (new york, ny), 1993 .
new york times, june 3, 1969, review of american scrapbook, p. 45; january 23, 1975, review of blue eyes, p. 31; november 19, 1977, john leonard, review of the franklin scare, p. 19; june 18, 1979, christopher lehmann - haupt, review of the seventh babe, p. c15 .
paint your wagon (1969) directed by joshua logan. cast: lee marvin, clint eastwood, jean seberg, ray walston, harve presnell. in this musical film a michigan farmer and a grizzled prospector form a partnership in the california gold country. their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. screenplay and lyrics by alan jay lerner; produced by alan jay lerner. 164 min. dvd 8223 credits and other information from the internet movie database
finian' s rainbow (1968) directed by francis ford coppola. cast: fred astaire, petula clark, don francks, keenan wynn, tommy steele, barbara hancock. based on the broadway play and book by e. y. harburg and fred saidy. a leprechaun tries to retrieve a crock of gold from an old wanderer who has taken it to america where he has planted it in the soil thinking he will reap a rich harvest. fred astaire sings and dances his last musical lead in this film based on the 1947 broadway play. 145 min. dvd 3649 credits and other information from the internet movie database
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dictionary of literary biography yearbook: 1983, thomson gale (detroit, mi), 1984 .
new york times book review, september 17, 1967, review of going to jerusalem, p. 45; march 28, 1971, review of eisenhower, my eisenhower, p. 4; may 2, 1976, review of marilyn the wild, p. 54; september 5, 1976, review of the education of patrick silver, p. 5; january 21, 1979, seymour epstein, review of secret isaac, p. 14; may 6, 1979, review of the seventh babe, p. 12; april 20, 1980, william pritchard, review of the catfish man, p. 15; december 7, 1980, benjamin demott, review of darlin' bill, p. 11; july 16, 1989, robert sklar, review of movieland: hollywood and the great american dream culture, p. 17; august 5, 1990, marilyn stasio, review of the good policeman, p. 29; july 9, 2000, leslie epstein ,
odessa in the bronx ,
p. 13 .
saturday review, june 5, 1971, robert scholes, review of eisenhower, my eisenhower .
gordon, mary .
father chuck: a reading of
going my way
and
the bells of st. mary' s ,
or why priests made us crazy .
knapp, raymond .
history ,
the sound of music ,
and us .
other hopwood winners who went on to become part of a who’s - who of writers of the last three generations include max apple, john ciardi, mary gaitskill, robert hayden, laura kasischke, jane kenyon, howard moss, frank o’hara, marge piercy, ronald wallace and nancy willard .
lakeith stanfield and his sorry to bother you director boots riley discuss the stress of filming sex scenes .
death of a tango king, new york university press (new york, ny), 1998 .
charyn himself, in the black swan, offered a disclaimer of factuality to his readers, stating :
although this memoir was inspired by the experiences of my childhood, certain characters, places, incidents … are the product of imaginative recreation .
even in the absence of this admission ,
observed a writer for kirkus reviews ,
one needs a towering capacity to suspend disbelief over this charming, witty, and endearingly off - kilter account of a young truant, played against a supporting cast of … characters who, in an overtly fictitious setting, would be accurately described as runyonesque .
new criterion, february, 2006, jeffrey meyers, review of savage shorthand, p. 74 .
granted to very few actors during the days of the studio system. consequently, muni’s film roles were
/ j. e. smyth; foreword by austin: university of texas press, 2010. (
bell, robert h .
implicated without choice: the double vision of the singing detective .
in the green lantern: a romance of stalinist russia, charyn portrays a russian provincial acting troupe in the grand city of moscow, where it hopes to mount a modest and brief production of king lear. when the inexperienced set builder ivanushka is unexpectedly called upon to substitute for the title character, a miracle happens. ivanushka becomes an overnight sensation, playing to sold - out crowds and attracting the attention of the celebrities of moscow, including stalin himself. ivanushka' s adventures and romances fill the pages of this novel in typical charyn fashion, which was described by a contributor to kirkus reviews as
endlessly quirky .
crew: (b & w) extract of a review from 1936. running time: 101 min .
the single voice: an anthology of contemporary fiction, collier (new york, ny), 1969 .
charyn has long been fascinated with the soviet regime and the legacy of russian jewish writers, including isaac babel, the novelist who courageously continued his literary career during josef stalin' s murderous regime. in savage shorthand: the life and death of isaac babel, charyn investigates babel' s wretched existence in the soviet union and explores many of the myths and legends that have surrounded the writer, who was eventually executed in 1940 after being found guilty on trumped - up charges of espionage in a twenty - minute trial. a vast body of unpublished work perished with him. the
savage shorthand
of charyn' s title refers to babel' s ability to summarize the horror of the wars he witnessed (both the russian revolution and world war i) in prose as compressed as that of ernest hemingway. charyn writes of babel' s death at the hands of the stalin regime, and the cover - up that followed, as well as the many myths babel perpetrated about himself in an effort to protect his life. donna sea - man, writing in booklist, called the biography a
zestful and revelatory appreciation of a great and courageous writer .
harper' s, november, 2005, john leonard, review of savage shorthand, p. 90 .
smith, jeff .
black faces, white voices: the politics of dubbing in carmen jones .
berkeley: university of california press, c2007. (main: pn1995. 9. n4 w45 2007 )
hollywood hotel (1937) directed by busby berkeley. cast: dick powell, rosemary lane, hugh herbert, ted healy, benny goodman and his orchestra, louella parsons, glenda farrell, lola lane, johnnie davis, alan mowbray. if you love music, check into hollywood hotel. the story' s about a filmland newbie caught between a spoiled star and her likeable look - alike. but the movie' s about busby berkeley' s ace direction - - and music, music, music. special features: technicolor historical short the romance of robert burns; edgar bergen / charlie mccarthy comedy short double talk; classic cartoons porky' s five & ten; theatrical trailer. 109 min. dvd x178 credits and other information from the internet movie database
the hopwood room hums with university of michigan writing students sharing ideas and chocolate chip cookies around an oak roundtable once used by avery hopwood, the most successful broadway playwright of the roaring ’20s. the small library is filled with books and other work written by winners of the nation’s oldest and largest collegiate prize for creative writing .
broadway melody of 1936 (1935) directed by roy del ruth. cast: jack benny, robert taylor, eleanor powell, una merkel. lovely, gifted irene foster (eleanor powell) hopes that her c music and lyrics, nacio herb brown, arthur freed. lovely, gifted irene foster (eleanor powell) hopes that her childhood sweetheart - turned broadway producer robert gordon (robert taylor) will recognize her - - and her talent. gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt - dishing gossip columnist (jack benny) to notice, but his wisecracking, heart - of - gold secretary (una merkel) certainly does. she and irene must use their wits to show him what he' s missing! 101 min. dvd 9896; vhs 999: 845 credits and other information from the internet movie database
they both had pre - code hearts, because there’s a moment of homage to the era early in the film, when two film posters are glimpsed on the front of a cinema. one advertises william wellman’s 1932 programmer
directed by jean negulesco. this one - reel musical short, part of the wb / vitaphone melody master series, features the music of trumpet - player and orchestra leader henry busse and his orchestra, playing their own arrangements of various popular songs of the time... or in the warners' song library. those include
wang wang blues ,
hot lips
and
along the santa fe trail .
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lecomte, jean - marie .
rouben mamoulian' s applause and the birth of the disenchanted musical .
bates, anna louise .
calamity jane and the social construction of gender in the 1930s and 1950s .
o' nell, brian .
carmen miranda: the high price of fame and bananas .
in :
mclean, adrienne l .
feeling and the filmed body: judy garland and the kinesics of suffering .
glancy, h. mark .
dreaming of christmas: hollywood and the second world war .
in :
chapman, james
god bless us, every one: movie adaptations of a christmas carol .
in :
mclean, adrienne l .
feeling and the filmed body: judy garland and the kinesics of suffering .
i have seen this judy, but not recently enough to offer a razor sharp assessment of the film in the context of your review. still, much of it comes back, and i do well remember blondell and powell giving dazzling turns. arlen and yarburg of course famously wrote the score to the wizard of oz, and the score here is very fine. yes, there is a darker tone, and always is with the depression era films (or films that are set during that period). the freedoms of the earlier films did not extend here, but all things considered nothing was too objectionable. great to see you back writing and with a typically fantastic essay at that!
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 . the film features songs by the teams of harold arlen , e.y. harburg , harry warren and al dubin . it was based on the play " sweet mystery of life " by richard maibaum , michael wallach and george haight , which ran briefly on broadway in 1935 . warren duff wrote the screenplay with the assistance of tom warren , who was billed as " screenplay constructor " . this is the fifth movie in warner bros. ' series of " gold digger " films , following the now lost film the gold diggers ( 1923 ) and gold diggers of broadway ( 1929 ) , as well as a remake of the earlier film gold diggers of 1933 ( which was the first to feature busby berkeley 's extravagant production numbers ) and gold diggers of 1935 . the film was followed by gold diggers in paris ( 1938 ) . 
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. the film features songs by the teams of harold arlen, e.y. harburg, harry warren and al dubin. it was based on the play " sweet mystery of life " by richard maibaum, michael wallach and george haight, which ran briefly on broadway in 1935. warren duff wrote the screenplay with the assistance of tom warren, who was billed as " screenplay constructor ". this is the fifth movie in warner bros.' series of " gold digger " films, following the now lost film the gold diggers (1923) and gold diggers of broadway (1929), as well as a remake of the earlier film gold diggers of 1933 (which was the first to feature busby berkeley's extravagant production numbers) and gold diggers of 1935. the film was followed by gold diggers in paris (1938).
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. the film features songs by the teams of harold arlen, e.y. harburg, harry warren and al dubin. it was based on the play " sweet mystery of life " by richard maibaum, michael wallach and george haight, which ran briefly on broadway in 1935. warren duff wrote the screenplay with the assistance of tom warren, who was billed as " screenplay constructor ". this is the fifth movie in warner bros.' series of " gold digger " films, following the now lost film the gold diggers (1923) and gold diggers of broadway (1929), as well as a remake of the earlier film gold diggers of 1933 (which was the first to feature busby berkeley's extravagant production numbers) and gold diggers of 1935. the film was followed by gold diggers in paris (1938).