Gold Diggers of 1937
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| Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
| Produced by |
Jack L. Warner Hal B. Wallis |
| Screenplay by | Warren Duff |
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Sweet Mystery of Life Richard Maibaum Michael Wallace George Haight |
| Starring |
Dick Powell Joan Blondell Glenda Farrell Victor Moore |
| Music by |
Harold Arlen (music) E.Y. Harburg (lyrics) Harry Warren (music) Al Dubin (lyrics) |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Edited by | Thomas Richards |
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101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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). And 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).
Meek, aging, hypochondriac stage producer J.J. Hobart (Victor Moore), who always thinks he is about to die, is going to mount a new show, but his partners Morty Wethered (Osgood Perkins) and Tom Hugo (Charles D. Brown) lost the money for the show in the stock market. On the advice of chorus girl Genevieve Larkin (Glenda Farrell), they insure J.J. for a million dollars, so that when he dies, they will have the money they need to produce the show. Genevieve's friend, ex-chorus girl Norma Perry (Joan Blondell) is sweet on insurance salesman "Rosmer" Peek (Dick Powell), and he writes the policy.
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