@theshadow1932 In addition, legislation by Obama has been blocked by Republicans, who are doing exactly as they announced they would do, which is that would work against the president to ensure that he would be a one term president, regardless of the consequences to the nation. Republicans major goal for three years has been to obstruct government.
Your extremist ideology prevents you from accepting fact.
@theshadow1932 You're still running on empty, dude. When FDR was sworn in on March 1933, unemployment had already reached nearly 20%. FDR's policies put people to work and food on the table for millions of families, who might otherwise have slowly starved. FDR introduced legislation to prevent the financial abuses of the 1920s, which the Bush administration repealed, with the resultant 2008 stock market crash and economic crisis. FDR's policies were the exact opposite of Hoover's.
@carrotjuse FDR's policies were the exact opposite of Hoover's. That statement displays such ignorance of both history and the basic principles of economics that continuing this discussion would obviously be pointless. You're right about one thing; the Republicans are doing their level best to slow down the Obama wrecking ball, Cod bless them. If they can stay strong for another year, we may yet save America.
Etta Moten did Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" on Broadway, I believe between 1942-44. She was so amazing. Really nice to see her in this classic film and hear her brilliant voice!
Don't become depressed...Organize...Occupy something! Oh...and stop voting Republican...it might not cure all of America's problems...but it will go a long, long way in improving things.
This movie illustrates why the New Deal was created. Definitely there would've been a revolution otherwise. Americans made the United States what it is...they are not a disposable resource...
if you like this tune, there is a really great & better version by MONA GRAY on a cheapo red label ECLIPSE UK 8" 78 backed with the equally great AM I TO BLAME FOR THAT. Good luck finding it, Eclipse were usually inferior covers, not this one!
My father wasa young adult in 1933, I will never know the agony he went through in 1933. A high school drop-out in order to look for work to help support his parents. Most of us will never know. One of the most significant sequences of any depression era musical.
@theshadow1932 Yes, George W Bush, like Herbert Hoover in the twenties, caused lasting damage. The stock market crash & financial crisis of November 1929 caused a depression that lasted eleven years. So the damage from the stock market crash and financial crisis of September 2008 will be with us through the next decade.
@llatimer2 Sorry, but you seem to be fact-deficient. The Clinton years were the most prosperous of the last forty. I know you hate to hear it, but he paid off Reagan's $320 billion deficit in only 6 years and left office with an $8 billion surplus.
Nixon is the one who opened up trade with China after his visit in February 1972.
One of the greatest 100 moments in motion picture history. Unforgettable imagery. Shamefully, Joan Blondell didn't reach the heights as did some of her peers. Even so, this excerpt ranks as one of the all-time greats in musicals. Salute
"Ever since the world began/A woman's got to have a man"
Of course, with her throbbing clit and grasping cunt, a woman is a sex machine with a huge libido and craving for orgasms greater than a man's. Of course this gives men power, and a man should never ever pay for sex in any way, shape, or form.
@Torgo1969 Roflololololololololololololololololololololololololololol!!!! I haven't heard such a ridiculous and archaic statement in literally decades!!! It sounds like something some ignorant yokel would say a hundred years ago. Thanks for the belly laugh, Gordo. You're a card! Or is that a retard?
I love this scene . Very socialist. I can hardly believe that Joan sang this and that is wasn't dubbed cos its just so good. Thre is very little of Etta Moten on YT.
@eugeneonegin09 : very true. The US gov't will always happily take ur help but quickly forget you after the fact. Moral of the story? Don't support the US military! Don't take part in their drive for world conquest.
@llatimer2: the truth hurts. Calling me names will do nothing but show that I'm right. The real warriors say NO to illegal invasions and refuse to take part in them.
@eric5906 Illegal aliens are invading this country is that murder, punk. Laugh on you eunuch. You won't be when the US military no longer protects you, idiot.
@llatimer2 : the only idiot is one who thinks the US military is your friend. They will soon turn on the people the minute the gov't tells them to because they are like you: robots.
@eric5906 If not for US military you would not even have the free speech nor the forum tp spout your nonsense. they ahve never yet and never will turn on the American people. You've taken one too many up the wazoo. You're goofy.
@llatimer2 : Free speech? You're living in a dream world. We have a two party oligarchy run by millionaires who are hell bent on controlling all the earth's resources and 6 huge corporations feeding us all our 'news'. You call that free speech? No, you're the idiot.
How courageous this must have been in 1933! A devastating number. One can only imagine the effect on the movie-going, many who been in the war, or lost loved ones, and were living on the breadline.
Talk about no punches pulled. Joan Blondell is utterly sumptuous but, for me, Etta Moten's wailing contralto steals the song. But each section just builds and builds the cumulative emotional wallop of the production. Best musical number ever? It's certainly a contender!!
@eric5906 This isn't exactly song about the Great Depression. It's about "The Forgotten Men" (well duh) who were the veterans who served in the most horrific war to date at the time, and they never got payed for it. Look up "The Bonus Army" to get some background history.
But still, things suck today, especially for veterans, despite how much money is put into the military.
@DracoFamiliar : well, come out to California. We have many states with over 15%-18% unemployment. Fresno and Madera are ghost towns. Whole families are drifting. Lots of fun out west.
@eric5906 I didn't mean to incite a battle, but if you insist, I live in IB (which if you're so unfamiliar is in California), my dad lives in Virginia Beach, yes Virginia, because there wasn't any jobs here and we're living on 1200 dollars a month and that's before bills and taxes are paid. I'm lucky I have internet considering that we pay his bills over there and my mom and I's bills over here before even food is paid for. And the Great Depression saw 20% AND OVER in unemployment NATION WIDE.
@DracoFamiliar : thanks for the info smart guy. I believe the national average is OVER 20% if you count the underemployed, the military returning, those that've given up looking for employment, etc. Since the feds lie not to stir up the masses the official numbers are much lower, but we all know the truth. We are in a depression but the liars don't want to call it that. That was my original message. This won't get better for decades. We are all screwed, big time.
@DracoFamiliar: I'm just calling it like I see it, and in the case of the economy, I don't see how you can be anything *but* a 'pessimist'. I hope we all get a break from this mess!
Yes, MacArthur was only following orders when he was told to "remove" the Bonus Army (and their families) from their encampments in Washington. But I'm also certain he was bitter about the whole affair for the rest of his life.
Based on the context, I'm assuming you are talking about what happened to the Bonus Army. You do realize that MacArthur was not the one who decided to chase out the Bonus Army, right? Hoover gave the order, and MacArthur - as any soldier given an order - was obligated to obey the CinC.
Various biographies, including Perret's and Manchester's, also allege that Hoover gave the order to MacArthur. You should consult other sources other than make a decision base on one documentary.
I was careful to note that my opinion is based on one documentary, albeit, a long exhaustive one, and therefore of limited. value. In matters of history, my opinion is always reliant on the sources, and therefore is always subject to revision as new sources arrive. But my opinion isn't a "decision", since a decision has consequneces. In fact, I only put forth my opinion in the hope of getting the guy I was talking to to give me more information, instead of the usual "media bias" crap.
For most of us who are alive today, World War II, with its genocidal madness and nuclear nightmare, overshadows World War I, which is said to be just as horrible. I don't pretend to know anything about this, I'm basically repeating somethng my professor said once.
This was made probably made 14-15 years after WWI, so that's like the time between now and when Pulp fiction came out. This is an arresting window into another time, and thank you for sharing it.
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This song perhaps is the greatest anti-war song ever written. Perhaps some film maker would use it in a movie today, so a new generation know come to know it and love it.
BTW, the verse about abandoned soldiers resonated with audiences in early 1933 because the summer before 15,000 WWI vets converged on Washington, D.C., demanding early payment of their service bonus. Dubbed "The Bonus Army," their prolonged camp out was widely covered in the press and newsreels. President Hoover, worried that insurrection was coming, ordered Gen. McArthur to chase them out of town which he did with mounted cavalry and bayonets. Movie audiences booed the newsreels the next week.
I've heard that several months before this number was shot, FDR referred to the "forgotten man" in a campaign speech; I've wondered if this song was inspired by that. Months after this movie was released, "My Man Godfrey" began with wealthy people on a scavanger hunt (apparently a recent fad) looking for "a forgotten man" (whom Carole Lombard finds in the person of William Powell).I'm pretty sure that was inspired by this number.
There is a subtle detail that I have always wondereed about. Behind Joan Blondell at 5:47 is the Mid-Hudson Bridge. Berkeley could have picked any well known bridge for that small background detail. BUT, the Mid-Hudson Bridge is located in Poughkeepsie, NY: Franklin Roosevelt's home town. (The bridge would even later be renamed for Roosevelt). I wonder if that choice to have the Mid-Hudson Bridge in the background was to show support for Roosevelt's election.
For me, is one of the bet (If not THE best) musical scene of all time in the movies ... and not meaning as a show or as spectacle ... but as art. Glorious piece of Berkeley genius!
Interesting that this piece was made some 15 years AFTER WWI -- a dark commentary of how society must suffer the ravages of war long after the war has ended. Joan Blondell truly drives the message home! Sad... humanity, it appears, is condemned to repeating its mistakes. I wish more people would see this. Thanks for posting...
So powerful - even today, still sends a tingle up my spine. My parents used to have this on a old LP and I memorized the words as a child. Thanks for posting this.
A quizically downbeat ending to a film with otherwise upbeat musical numbers. But at the same time, it was commenting on the problems of its time, which coincidentally have returned to us now, as of the last 8 years, but even more especially the last 18 months. Its a great film, I'd definitely recommend it. Netflix has it.
I see the thought police bonked most of the other Busby Berkeley clips.. Bleh. Assholes. Try a google video search for "Dames". Another awesome film.
I know what you mean. The first time I saw Gold Diggers of 1933, I was taken aback by this unsuspectingly dark turn in the ending - but I was impressed. I wonder if Berkley's intention was to catch the audience off guard with contrasting themes.
It is in his autobiography. Americans listen to both sides before they kill off the accused. Isn't the expression..innocent til proven guilty? Ever run into a college textbook which is wrong?
So you're saying that MacArthur didn't do that? Maybe it was someone who looked just like him?
A lot of what I know about MacArthur comes from Ken Burns incredible Doc "The War". The guy really does seem like a giant douche, but if you have conrary info, please share.
Today it would have been banned because it might offend or "diss" those sub-human pieces of filth Bush and Cheney and their whore master garbage in Amerika's korporate boardrooms.
Hauntingly beautiful social comment in glorious song and brilliant images. I fear that we are going through it all again, albeit no sharing and no compassion this time around.
Etta Moten..what an incredible voice...same as in Flying Down to Rio..
everytime I hear or see either, get a big lump in my throat..an amazing talent.....
arnie473 1 month ago
@theshadow1932 In addition, legislation by Obama has been blocked by Republicans, who are doing exactly as they announced they would do, which is that would work against the president to ensure that he would be a one term president, regardless of the consequences to the nation. Republicans major goal for three years has been to obstruct government.
Your extremist ideology prevents you from accepting fact.
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carrotjuse 1 month ago
@theshadow1932 You're still running on empty, dude. When FDR was sworn in on March 1933, unemployment had already reached nearly 20%. FDR's policies put people to work and food on the table for millions of families, who might otherwise have slowly starved. FDR introduced legislation to prevent the financial abuses of the 1920s, which the Bush administration repealed, with the resultant 2008 stock market crash and economic crisis. FDR's policies were the exact opposite of Hoover's.
carrotjuse 1 month ago
@carrotjuse FDR's policies were the exact opposite of Hoover's. That statement displays such ignorance of both history and the basic principles of economics that continuing this discussion would obviously be pointless. You're right about one thing; the Republicans are doing their level best to slow down the Obama wrecking ball, Cod bless them. If they can stay strong for another year, we may yet save America.
theshadow1932 1 month ago
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@theshadow1932 "FDR's policies were the exact opposite of Hoover's."
What did I just say? You need a class in reading comprehension.
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carrotjuse 1 month ago
Etta Moten did Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" on Broadway, I believe between 1942-44. She was so amazing. Really nice to see her in this classic film and hear her brilliant voice!
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This movie illustrates why the New Deal was created. Definitely there would've been a revolution otherwise. Americans made the United States what it is...they are not a disposable resource...
masercot 6 months ago 7
i love this movie n i damned well did cry my heart out when i heard this, like this if u did too
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if you like this tune, there is a really great & better version by MONA GRAY on a cheapo red label ECLIPSE UK 8" 78 backed with the equally great AM I TO BLAME FOR THAT. Good luck finding it, Eclipse were usually inferior covers, not this one!
cccatno1 9 months ago
My father wasa young adult in 1933, I will never know the agony he went through in 1933. A high school drop-out in order to look for work to help support his parents. Most of us will never know. One of the most significant sequences of any depression era musical.
uslines 10 months ago 7
@uslines I will never know the agony he went through in 1933.
Stay tuned. We ALL may have a pretty good idea of it, before the decade's out.
theshadow1932 8 months ago 2
@theshadow1932 : I'm scared to say, I totally agree with you.
eric5906 6 months ago
@theshadow1932 Yes, George W Bush, like Herbert Hoover in the twenties, caused lasting damage. The stock market crash & financial crisis of November 1929 caused a depression that lasted eleven years. So the damage from the stock market crash and financial crisis of September 2008 will be with us through the next decade.
carrotjuse 2 months ago 2
@carrotjuse Goes back to Bill Clinto and his erace of GATT, NAFTA, and free trad with the Chinese Empire
llatimer2 2 months ago
@llatimer2 Sorry, but you seem to be fact-deficient. The Clinton years were the most prosperous of the last forty. I know you hate to hear it, but he paid off Reagan's $320 billion deficit in only 6 years and left office with an $8 billion surplus.
Nixon is the one who opened up trade with China after his visit in February 1972.
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ETHEUNICE 1 year ago
One of the greatest 100 moments in motion picture history. Unforgettable imagery. Shamefully, Joan Blondell didn't reach the heights as did some of her peers. Even so, this excerpt ranks as one of the all-time greats in musicals. Salute
HouseofBurgessesLR 1 year ago 11
Hard to believe all they wanted was the bonus money promised for serving in WWI. Now deadbeats get unemployment for +99 weeks and counting.
trh55 1 year ago
@trh55 Since when is everyone who is unemployed a deadbeat? Your attitude is sickening.
carrotjuse 10 months ago 6
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"Ever since the world began/A woman's got to have a man"
Of course, with her throbbing clit and grasping cunt, a woman is a sex machine with a huge libido and craving for orgasms greater than a man's. Of course this gives men power, and a man should never ever pay for sex in any way, shape, or form.
Remember, brothers...The man is the prize.
Torgo1969 1 year ago
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carrotjuse 10 months ago
@Torgo1969 Roflololololololololololololololololololololololololololol!!!! I haven't heard such a ridiculous and archaic statement in literally decades!!! It sounds like something some ignorant yokel would say a hundred years ago. Thanks for the belly laugh, Gordo. You're a card! Or is that a retard?
carrotjuse 2 months ago 5
I get chills every time I see this. Etta's voice is hauntingly beautiful.
ImmortalChaos 1 year ago
The song of the Great Depressioin and the Great Recession.....hauntingly beautiful. The cycle continues....
cadee78 1 year ago 6
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I love this scene . Very socialist. I can hardly believe that Joan sang this and that is wasn't dubbed cos its just so good. Thre is very little of Etta Moten on YT.
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substitute afghanistan and iraq for the first world war.....and bush 2 for hoover.....see any similarities
eugeneonegin09 1 year ago
@eugeneonegin09 : very true. The US gov't will always happily take ur help but quickly forget you after the fact. Moral of the story? Don't support the US military! Don't take part in their drive for world conquest.
eric5906 1 year ago 5
@eric5906 Its not the military its the politicins. REMEMBER OUR FORGOTTEN MEN OF THE MILITARY Forget the hating cowards like you.
llatimer2 1 year ago
@llatimer2: the truth hurts. Calling me names will do nothing but show that I'm right. The real warriors say NO to illegal invasions and refuse to take part in them.
eric5906 1 year ago
@eric5906 Then tell the truth punk. What is an illegal invasion? Forget the like you and remember teh figting MAN who sacrificed all for YOUR freedom
llatimer2 1 year ago
@llatimer2 : good question. That's like asking me, 'what's murder?'. Keep cheering on the military machine! Your socalled 'freedom' What a laugh!
eric5906 1 year ago
@eric5906 Illegal aliens are invading this country is that murder, punk. Laugh on you eunuch. You won't be when the US military no longer protects you, idiot.
llatimer2 1 year ago
@llatimer2 : the only idiot is one who thinks the US military is your friend. They will soon turn on the people the minute the gov't tells them to because they are like you: robots.
eric5906 1 year ago 2
@eric5906 If not for US military you would not even have the free speech nor the forum tp spout your nonsense. they ahve never yet and never will turn on the American people. You've taken one too many up the wazoo. You're goofy.
llatimer2 1 year ago
@llatimer2 : Free speech? You're living in a dream world. We have a two party oligarchy run by millionaires who are hell bent on controlling all the earth's resources and 6 huge corporations feeding us all our 'news'. You call that free speech? No, you're the idiot.
eric5906 1 year ago
@eric5906 And the only men of honor, The US military is the only line against them, while you are jsut one of their penuch, puppets.
llatimer2 1 year ago
@llatimer2 Goodness! Aren't we grumpy! Did we get up on the wrong side of bed this morning?
carrotjuse 10 months ago 3
@carrotjuse Always the RIGHT side
llatimer2 2 months ago
@llatimer2 The wrong side. That's why you're so out of sorts.
carrotjuse 2 months ago
@carrotjuse So says StanLaurel. My stanc is right and exact and you're running around acting out the slapstick
llatimer2 2 months ago
@llatimer2 lolololol
carrotjuse 2 months ago
Et de le meme film le meilleur moment! Avec sous titres francais;
Nicoladahlk 1 year ago
Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Joan Blondell.
miltthepimp 1 year ago 5
How courageous this must have been in 1933! A devastating number. One can only imagine the effect on the movie-going, many who been in the war, or lost loved ones, and were living on the breadline.
Talk about no punches pulled. Joan Blondell is utterly sumptuous but, for me, Etta Moten's wailing contralto steals the song. But each section just builds and builds the cumulative emotional wallop of the production. Best musical number ever? It's certainly a contender!!
MDBellamy 1 year ago 27
We seem to be struck on this treadmill to tomorrow. Who speaks for all of us who are forgotten and wounded and discarded?
partac 1 year ago
Great poetry.
cw1310 1 year ago
Downbeat ending to an otherwise upbeat film. Great sequence. I wish you'd taped the entire thing :)
ragemanchoo82 1 year ago 2
Probably the most powerful anti-war song.
doolally69 1 year ago 8
Masterpiece!
No matter how many times I see it, there are tears in my eyes.
GypsyFairy69 1 year ago 5
My favorite song of the movie after "Pettin' in the Park," I loved how the womens and mens voices seemed to wail in sadness. Film at it's finest.
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prioritty3 1 year ago
This can be the song of the Great Recession. I don't think it's going to get any better for a damn long time. We're so screwed.
eric5906 2 years ago 11
@eric5906 This isn't exactly song about the Great Depression. It's about "The Forgotten Men" (well duh) who were the veterans who served in the most horrific war to date at the time, and they never got payed for it. Look up "The Bonus Army" to get some background history.
But still, things suck today, especially for veterans, despite how much money is put into the military.
CrashHulkman 1 year ago
@CrashHulkman Both subjects are in there. Note the sequence of men standing in line for soup and bread.
Useless2112 1 year ago
@eric5906 I don't think it's anywhere like the Great Depression just yet....but we are definetly down that road.
DracoFamiliar 6 months ago
@DracoFamiliar : well, come out to California. We have many states with over 15%-18% unemployment. Fresno and Madera are ghost towns. Whole families are drifting. Lots of fun out west.
eric5906 6 months ago
@eric5906 I didn't mean to incite a battle, but if you insist, I live in IB (which if you're so unfamiliar is in California), my dad lives in Virginia Beach, yes Virginia, because there wasn't any jobs here and we're living on 1200 dollars a month and that's before bills and taxes are paid. I'm lucky I have internet considering that we pay his bills over there and my mom and I's bills over here before even food is paid for. And the Great Depression saw 20% AND OVER in unemployment NATION WIDE.
DracoFamiliar 6 months ago
@DracoFamiliar : thanks for the info smart guy. I believe the national average is OVER 20% if you count the underemployed, the military returning, those that've given up looking for employment, etc. Since the feds lie not to stir up the masses the official numbers are much lower, but we all know the truth. We are in a depression but the liars don't want to call it that. That was my original message. This won't get better for decades. We are all screwed, big time.
eric5906 6 months ago
@eric5906 I'm sorry you're a pessimist filled with animosity. I hope you get a break soon. And I'm not being sarcastic either.
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@DracoFamiliar: I'm just calling it like I see it, and in the case of the economy, I don't see how you can be anything *but* a 'pessimist'. I hope we all get a break from this mess!
eric5906 6 months ago
I wrote this song.
Useless2112 2 years ago
My how times DON'T change !
AnElephantsChild 2 years ago 5
Or rather, "the more things change, the more they stay the same"...
1940semochild 2 years ago 2
Yes, MacArthur was only following orders when he was told to "remove" the Bonus Army (and their families) from their encampments in Washington. But I'm also certain he was bitter about the whole affair for the rest of his life.
fromthesidelines 2 years ago
Sorry...WWI is pretty darn sick..YPRES!
Themostancient 2 years ago
so close to present yet so far away.
spankbandit 2 years ago 3
Well I'm sure he had a side, but so far, no one has alleged anything other than he led the routing. That's pretty much a T/F.
spiderbaby1958 2 years ago
Based on the context, I'm assuming you are talking about what happened to the Bonus Army. You do realize that MacArthur was not the one who decided to chase out the Bonus Army, right? Hoover gave the order, and MacArthur - as any soldier given an order - was obligated to obey the CinC.
Various biographies, including Perret's and Manchester's, also allege that Hoover gave the order to MacArthur. You should consult other sources other than make a decision base on one documentary.
thebigdoubleu 2 years ago
I was careful to note that my opinion is based on one documentary, albeit, a long exhaustive one, and therefore of limited. value. In matters of history, my opinion is always reliant on the sources, and therefore is always subject to revision as new sources arrive. But my opinion isn't a "decision", since a decision has consequneces. In fact, I only put forth my opinion in the hope of getting the guy I was talking to to give me more information, instead of the usual "media bias" crap.
spiderbaby1958 2 years ago
For most of us who are alive today, World War II, with its genocidal madness and nuclear nightmare, overshadows World War I, which is said to be just as horrible. I don't pretend to know anything about this, I'm basically repeating somethng my professor said once.
This was made probably made 14-15 years after WWI, so that's like the time between now and when Pulp fiction came out. This is an arresting window into another time, and thank you for sharing it.
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hoi2000d 2 years ago
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hoi2000d 2 years ago
After 70 odd years-thes lyrics are just as powerful with meaning - only now we can add forgotten woman.
newrochellephoenix 2 years ago 2
Holy Cow! This is powerful stuff. I'm crying and I'm a guy. Timeless. Easily one of the greatest homages to vets ever put on film.
chem100 2 years ago 2
This song perhaps is the greatest anti-war song ever written. Perhaps some film maker would use it in a movie today, so a new generation know come to know it and love it.
spinliquid 2 years ago 6
I've loved this number since I watched the movie Thursday night on TCM. The song brings tears to my eyes. Genius!
classicstars98 2 years ago 4
I know this number is so a refection on what the men are dying from the war. lies, Men on the D.L, etc our men are being forgotten
Central85 2 years ago
BTW, the verse about abandoned soldiers resonated with audiences in early 1933 because the summer before 15,000 WWI vets converged on Washington, D.C., demanding early payment of their service bonus. Dubbed "The Bonus Army," their prolonged camp out was widely covered in the press and newsreels. President Hoover, worried that insurrection was coming, ordered Gen. McArthur to chase them out of town which he did with mounted cavalry and bayonets. Movie audiences booed the newsreels the next week.
Gobsmack100 2 years ago 2
I've heard that several months before this number was shot, FDR referred to the "forgotten man" in a campaign speech; I've wondered if this song was inspired by that. Months after this movie was released, "My Man Godfrey" began with wealthy people on a scavanger hunt (apparently a recent fad) looking for "a forgotten man" (whom Carole Lombard finds in the person of William Powell).I'm pretty sure that was inspired by this number.
Gobsmack100 2 years ago
Probably the greatest musical sequence in film. Period. Just extraordinary. Art at its finest.
ChrissyTNG 2 years ago 3
There is a subtle detail that I have always wondereed about. Behind Joan Blondell at 5:47 is the Mid-Hudson Bridge. Berkeley could have picked any well known bridge for that small background detail. BUT, the Mid-Hudson Bridge is located in Poughkeepsie, NY: Franklin Roosevelt's home town. (The bridge would even later be renamed for Roosevelt). I wonder if that choice to have the Mid-Hudson Bridge in the background was to show support for Roosevelt's election.
papaT10932 2 years ago 2
That is still powerful after all these years!
cornhuskerejt 2 years ago 3
For me, is one of the bet (If not THE best) musical scene of all time in the movies ... and not meaning as a show or as spectacle ... but as art. Glorious piece of Berkeley genius!
CrissCross779 2 years ago 5
Goose bumps. The more things change...
fishhead06 2 years ago 7
Rock on, Busby Berkeley. sheer genius! Joan Blondell kicks (*&*&ss!
NATURECAMHD 2 years ago 2
Genius ; the song,the cinematography,the choreography,the message .
billga2007 2 years ago 2
can somebody repost We're in the Money?
mookindahouse 2 years ago
Wow this made me so sad
stencil62 2 years ago 5
Etta Moten's voice sends chills! Glorious!
nugsnook 2 years ago 5
Interesting that this piece was made some 15 years AFTER WWI -- a dark commentary of how society must suffer the ravages of war long after the war has ended. Joan Blondell truly drives the message home! Sad... humanity, it appears, is condemned to repeating its mistakes. I wish more people would see this. Thanks for posting...
rjworks13 2 years ago 4
it wasnt about the war...but the depression...the bonus march
davidjadah 2 years ago 3
Yes, I know...
rjworks13 2 years ago
Joan was hot!....
MerleOberon 2 years ago
Radical and revolutionary. Those who think we're reliving this era obviously didn't live through any of it. Speak to your granddads!
Rollich 2 years ago
Incredible..! what a great song among other great songs in an amazing movie.
MonykaBolinha 2 years ago
So powerful - even today, still sends a tingle up my spine. My parents used to have this on a old LP and I memorized the words as a child. Thanks for posting this.
lancerlot1968 2 years ago 3
Thank you so much.
Isolar 2 years ago
A quizically downbeat ending to a film with otherwise upbeat musical numbers. But at the same time, it was commenting on the problems of its time, which coincidentally have returned to us now, as of the last 8 years, but even more especially the last 18 months. Its a great film, I'd definitely recommend it. Netflix has it.
I see the thought police bonked most of the other Busby Berkeley clips.. Bleh. Assholes. Try a google video search for "Dames". Another awesome film.
ragemanchoo82 2 years ago
I know what you mean. The first time I saw Gold Diggers of 1933, I was taken aback by this unsuspectingly dark turn in the ending - but I was impressed. I wonder if Berkley's intention was to catch the audience off guard with contrasting themes.
rjworks13 2 years ago 4
all shoulkd read about "hoover-ville'' and the Vets March on Washington - broken up by Douglas McArthur
oaklandborn 2 years ago 2
Ever hear McArthur's side to that incident?
It is in his autobiography. Americans listen to both sides before they kill off the accused. Isn't the expression..innocent til proven guilty? Ever run into a college textbook which is wrong?
gettalifenow 2 years ago
So you're saying that MacArthur didn't do that? Maybe it was someone who looked just like him?
A lot of what I know about MacArthur comes from Ken Burns incredible Doc "The War". The guy really does seem like a giant douche, but if you have conrary info, please share.
spiderbaby1958 2 years ago
His side is in his book "Reminiscences".[
Always nice to hear the accused on the witness stand too.
gettalifenow 2 years ago
This is such an incredible and moving piece.
IVAWSergeant 2 years ago 3
by far one of my favorite numbers. it's pretty eerie how we've basically come full circle...
themadmarchhare24 2 years ago 2
Even today Americans don't give a shit about the Doughboys. Leave it to the French--the FRENCH--to honor them!
sarahgirl68 3 years ago
Yeah, that was back when the French LIKED us Yanks!
scotpens 2 years ago
Hits a little too close to home nowadays too, doesn't it? History is cyclical.
LEELEEA 3 years ago 4
It was very much a comment by the filmmakers. This scene ended the movie.
rdadal 3 years ago
WOW! One one of the best productions from that era. Music, choreography...it all came together. I'm glad YouTube hasn't yanked this. Great clip.
BOSSOMATIC 3 years ago 3
Note how this insightful conservative spells the word "Commie."
No wonder the US and the world economy is in the toilet.
BardCoennius 3 years ago
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BardCoennius 3 years ago
Can you imagine the kind of impact this might have had on a big screen in 1933?
MrAiredale 3 years ago
Today it would have been banned because it might offend or "diss" those sub-human pieces of filth Bush and Cheney and their whore master garbage in Amerika's korporate boardrooms.
May God damn them all.
BardCoennius 3 years ago 3
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Join the Commi party, you moron
kalash12345 3 years ago
Great,love it.
MgawL 3 years ago
Hauntingly beautiful social comment in glorious song and brilliant images. I fear that we are going through it all again, albeit no sharing and no compassion this time around.
rstephen52 3 years ago 13
Yes, let us hope that we shall not arrive at this point.
camille885 3 years ago
beautiful!
grettahall 3 years ago