42nd Street
Despire his poor health, successful Broadway director Julian Marsh still produces a new show with the financial help from a rich older man, who is in love with the star of the show, Dorothy Brock. But at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star...
26 January 1905, San Francisco, California, USA
14 November 1904, Mountain View, Arkansas, USA
16 March 1878, Shelby City, Alabama, USA
1 August 1913, France
May 31, 1912 in Big Spring, Texas, USA
14 January 1901, Dallas, Texas, USA
5 October 1874, New York City, New York, USA
10 December 1903, Covington, Kentucky, USA
23 November 1905, Summerville, Texas, USA
9 April 1900, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
20 January 1896, New York City, New York, USA
March 2, 1882 in Essex, England, UK
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
9 February 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 July 1911, Independence, Missouri, USA
June 22, 1891 in New York, USA
3 May 1902, New York City, New York, USA
3 June 1912, Waycross, Georgia, USA
31 December 1911, Houston, Texas, USA
May 20, 1916 in Birmingham, Michigan, USA
20 September 1897, Vevay, Indiana, USA
29 March 1889, Columbus, Ohio, USA
15 March 1904, Shannonbridge, Offaly, Ireland
19 November 1883, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
8 February 1902, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
29 March 1908, Fort Madison, Iowa, USA
25 January 1872, Buffalo, New York, USA
31 August 1914, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
January 27, 1896 in Roswell, New Mexico, USA
6 March 1882, El Paso, Texas, USA
August 26, 2005
42nd Street may not be the best backstage musical ever made, but it's certainly the most enjoyable and durable in appeal--find out why.
August 08, 2006
The liveliest and one of the most tuneful screen musical comedies that has come out of Hollywood.
June 17, 2009
A deliciously funny musical; racy and light years ahead of its time.
February 15, 2004
The strength of a musical is its songs, and this film had a mixed bag.
April 08, 2006
Of Golden Age musicals, 42nd Street is about as close to the archetype as they come.
October 16, 2007
This 1933 film is the best known of the Warner Brothers Depression-era musicals, though it doesn't compare in dash and extravagance to later entries in the cycle.
January 26, 2006
Berkeley choreographs chorines and camera with mischievous dexterity.
March 22, 2006
...the film that practically invented every backstage musical cliché we know today...remains a remarkable achievement for a film over seven decades old.
April 21, 2003
The result is an absolute spectacular. Not to be missed.
September 02, 2012
The careful building of the eye-level proscenium that's exploded by swooping cinematic music
January 11, 2004
One can't say enough good things about what Busby Berkeley did for the musical.
November 30, 2015
Film benefits from great musical numbers and its portrait of the show's director, one of the few well-developed gay characters in a 1930's Hollywood film.
