Gold diggers of 1935 - Lullaby of Broadway

[Steve20127]

Absolutely marvellous!! We shall not see its like again, sadly.

[firangina]

Academy award winning :D 

[FilmBuffClassic]

Tap Dance Heaven!

[pollysbuddy]

Man all those folks...precision plus.

[terrydalley]

Before I retired I had been in charge of 30-40 people and keeping them on their toes was sometimes a night mare .

But Busby Had to sort out this lot he was true Genius at it ,the logistics of this are just mind boggling.

[SamBuddwing]

1:38 never fails to astonish me.

[blacsouljah]

A masterpiece; proof that this country, while never perfect, was at the height of its glory, and its entertainment industry was second to none.

[00GreyEyedGirl00]

This was nominated for best dance direction, it should of won imo! Imagine having to organize and direct all those tappers!!!

[kaiserin00]

wow!

I'm dancer and I just wonder, how long did they have to pracise that ;) so many people dancing - and you can hear every single "tap"

[Rebestein]

@kaiserin00 Who says that it was recorded with sound? See the many cuts, how many persons are actually dancing in the scenes?

[terrydalley]

Plenty of cuts and reruns in this but what a

Piece of film we will never see the like of

this again ,you can see them all trying there

best with a chance of catching someones

eye and being discovered I wonder how

many of these became household names

in the future .

[PeteWoodier]

Love this song. It was a big hit in the UK charts in the long hot summer of 76.

[katandbaby]

i've always wondered where this song came from, i first heard it in the stage production of 42nd street which seems to have aquired an awful lot of songs from the gold diggers films!

[BuyBenco]

I haven't got a chance to see the film, how many times does this song play in the whole movie and for how long each?

[Adminhack0r]

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[levanyzzuf]

"just that we don't forget how marvellous the past days were"

Maybe in the movies 1935 was a marvellous time. Certainly not in real life.

[chrishanson70]

Leave it to Busby Berkeley to think of filming through a glass floor, boy he was a spectacular choreographer... and director too.

[recneps2001]

That's Dick Powell in the close-ups, with Winifred Shaw, who sings the title number and comes to an umtimely end. It's also got some creative play with the camera, including rewinds where the chorus line falls back and appears to be lifted forward again. Amazing cinema.

[Synkopphil]

absolutely right, amazing :)

i also know it's from gold diggers of 1935, i forgot to change that. thank you :)

[recneps2001]

This is from the hugely inventive and spectacular 'Lullaby of Broadway' number that climaxes Warner Bros.'Gold Diggers of 1935', one of a series of musical films of the period. See the whole number for an example of creative staging of song and dance in the period.