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...
16 July 1911, Independence, Missouri, USA
23 November 1905, Summerville, Texas, USA
14 November 1904, Mountain View, Arkansas, USA
June 22, 1891 in New York, USA
31 December 1911, Houston, Texas, USA
15 March 1904, Shannonbridge, Offaly, Ireland
8 February 1902, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
7 February 1904, New York City, New York, USA
6 March 1882, El Paso, Texas, USA
9 February 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 2, 1882 in Essex, England, UK
14 January 1901, Dallas, Texas, USA
April 08, 2006
Of Golden Age musicals, 42nd Street is about as close to the archetype as they come.
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.
January 26, 2006
Berkeley choreographs chorines and camera with mischievous dexterity.
January 11, 2004
One can't say enough good things about what Busby Berkeley did for the musical.
September 02, 2012
The careful building of the eye-level proscenium that's exploded by swooping cinematic music
August 08, 2006
The liveliest and one of the most tuneful screen musical comedies that has come out of Hollywood.
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.
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.
April 21, 2003
The result is an absolute spectacular. Not to be missed.
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.
February 15, 2004
The strength of a musical is its songs, and this film had a mixed bag.
