The gold diggers of 1935
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The gold diggers of 1935 |
| Original title | Gold Diggers of 1935 |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | At the. English |
| Publishing year | 1935 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Busby Berkeley |
| script |
Robert Lord , Manuel Seff , Peter Milne |
| music |
Harry Warren (composition), Al Dubin (text) |
| camera | George Barnes |
| cut | George Amy |
| occupation | |
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The Gold Diggers of 1935 (original title: Gold Diggers of 1935 ) is an American musical film by the director Busby Berkeley from 1935. The film is best known for the choreography to the song Lullaby of Broadway , which won an Oscar in 1936 .
action
The luxury hotel Wentworth Plaza is located in the fictional holiday resort “Lake Waxapahachie”, where the wealthy spend their summer vacation. The handsome Dick Curtis works here as a doorman to help finance his medical studies. When the wealthy Mrs. Prentiss offers to pay him well to accompany her daughter Ann Prentiss over the summer, he finds it difficult to refuse. Even Dick's fiancée, Arline Davis, encourages him to accept the offer. Mrs. Prentiss wants her daughter to meet the eccentric millionaire T. Mosely Thorpe III. Marry a middle-aged man who is considered an expert on snuffboxes. Ann has other plans, however. Her brother Humbolt has a weakness for pretty women: he has been married and divorced several times; his mother repeatedly had to come to the rescue with the checkbook.
Mrs. Prentiss organizes a charity event for the "milk stock" every summer. This year she hired the Russian ballet director Nicolai Nicoleff to lead the dance performances. The stingy Mrs. Prentiss wants to spend as little money as possible, but Nicoleff and his set designer Schultz want to put on a show that is as extravagant as possible, mainly to make money for themselves. The hotel manager Lampson and the hotel stenographer Hawes have also been initiated and should get their share of the misappropriated money. Hawes also blackmailed the helpless millionaire Thorpe.
Of course, Dick, who is hired as a guardian, falls in love with Ann, who is entrusted to him, while his ex-fiancée Arline marries Ann's brother Humbolt. The show costs her mother, Mrs. Prentiss, a fortune, but eventually she accepts her daughter's choice: in the long run, having a doctor in the family will eventually save money.
publication
The world premiere took place on March 14, 1935 in the New York cinema "Strand". In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on February 15, 1970 as a television broadcast in the original with German subtitles, and then as a dubbed version on November 14, 1995.
Reviews
“As in the previous gold digger film , the choreographed show counts here, while the story has even more holes. The plot practically doesn't move for an hour until the charity event begins as an excuse for a choreographed show. [...] The music of Al Dubin and Harry Warren is a bit off this time. Your waltz theme The Words Are In My Heart is […] a highly effective choreographed ballet by the Steinways. The last piece - Lullaby of Broadway sung by Winifred Shaw - is too long. "
"[V] let's forget the plot: A film by the choreography genius Busby Berkeley is about music and dance, and what he's doing here is great cinema - we only say: 56 pianos!"
Awards
- 1936: Won the Oscar for Best Song ( Harry Warren and Al Dubin ) for the song Lullaby of Broadway
- 1936: Nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Dance Directing ( Busby Berkeley )
Web links
- The Gold Diggers of 1935 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Excerpts from Gold Diggers of 1935 : "Lullaby of Broadway", Part 1 and Part 2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Gold Diggers of 1935 . In: Variety , December 31, 1934.
- ↑ Gold digger from 1935 on cinema.de