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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...
25 January 1872, Buffalo, New York, USA
8 March 1902, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
9 February 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 December 1903, Covington, Kentucky, USA
25 August 1910, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
31 December 1911, Houston, Texas, USA
23 November 1905, Summerville, Texas, USA
5 October 1874, New York City, New York, USA
7 February 1904, New York City, New York, USA
18 May 1903, Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]
16 March 1878, Shelby City, Alabama, USA
May 31, 1912 in Big Spring, Texas, USA
April 21, 2003
The result is an absolute spectacular. Not to be missed.
June 17, 2009
A deliciously funny musical; racy and light years ahead of its time.
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.
January 11, 2004
One can't say enough good things about what Busby Berkeley did for the musical.
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.
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.
August 08, 2006
The liveliest and one of the most tuneful screen musical comedies that has come out of Hollywood.
February 15, 2004
The strength of a musical is its songs, and this film had a mixed bag.
January 26, 2006
Berkeley choreographs chorines and camera with mischievous dexterity.
September 02, 2012
The careful building of the eye-level proscenium that's exploded by swooping cinematic music
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.
April 08, 2006
Of Golden Age musicals, 42nd Street is about as close to the archetype as they come.