Gold Diggers of 1933

Starring: Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Joan Blondell, et al.

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• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Warner Bros.
• Directors: Busby Berkeley, Mervyn LeRoy
• Starring: Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
• Other Video Info: Black & White
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

“Remember My Forgotten Man”

We started with the song “We’re in the Money” even in pig Latin. The year is 1933, and in the great depression. Barney Hopkins (Ned Sparks) wants to put on a show that can employ many people. Brad Roberts (Dick Powell), a composer with a $25 a week income, offers to put up the money. However, he is harboring a secret and does not want to be exposed. That secret will soon be the basis of a plot by three so-called gold diggers (Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, and Ruby Keeler) to get even with their besmirchers. “Gold Diggers of 1933” is quintessential of the Busby Berkeley formula. This will be repeated but never duplicated for many years to come. No one element separately says this is Berkeley, except maybe the message. Most of us will never really know what it was like to live in the 30’s, but we can relive the fun part through the movies. For some of us, the issues being depicted are being lived today.