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Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers 1933 poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Busby Berkeley
(musical sequences)
Produced by Robert Lord
Jack L. Warner
Written by Screenplay:
Erwin S. Gelsey
James Seymour
Dialogue:
Ben Markson
David Boehm
Based on the play The Gold Diggers
by Avery Hopwood
Starring Warren William
Joan Blondell
Aline MacMahon
Ruby Keeler
Dick Powell
Music by Harry Warren (music)
Al Dubin (lyrics)
Cinematography Sol Polito
Edited by George Amy
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date
  • May 27, 1933 (1933-05-27)
Running time
96 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $433,000
Box office $2,202,000 (US)
$1,029,000 (international)

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 282 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 the biggest box office hit 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".


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