Gold Diggers of 1937

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Call Number: DVD Musical Gold
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"Busby Berkeley collection, volume 2"--Set packaging.
Based on the play "Sweet mystery of life" by Richard Maibum, Michael Wallach and George Haight.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1937.
Special features include: Technicolor historical short The romance Of Louisiana; classic cartoons: Plenty of money and you, Speaking of the weather; 2 excerpts from 1929's Gold diggers of Broadway; theatrical trailer.
Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Victor Moore, Rosalind Marquis, Lee Dixon.
Rosmer Peck is an insurance agent with musical ambitions who becomes romantically involved with Norma Perry, a showgirl who has given up spangles for a stenographer's pad. Her friends Genevieve Larkin and Sally LaVerne give up their tap shoes for gold digging and take up with executives in a theatrical production company that, unbeknowst to them or the director J.J. Hobath, is going bankrupt due to poor management. Since J.J. seems to be in poor health, the executives take out a million dollar life insurance policy in an attempt to save the company. Now Rosmer has to keep J.J. alive so he can get his commission and the executives are trying to thwart his efforts.
DVD; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; dual-layer format; Dolby digital mono.
Contents: Sweet mystery of life.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Worthwhile submitted by rossorr on October 4, 2016, 11:37am In the 'Gold Diggers' series, the must-see classic is the '1933' film. This one is still pretty snappy, although more on the story end than the musical one. Joan Blondell is at her most adorbs here; or, if boys are your thing, keep an eye on insurance sidekick 'Boop' played by Lee Dixon. The final dance number 'Love is Just Like War' is plenty warped, even if the production feels a bit stripped down by Busby Berkeley standards.