Submitted by tictactoe on December 16, 2007

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Gold Diggers

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ginger Rogers, Warren William (98 min.) plus: notes on 2 early musical shorts, Sissle and Blake's Snappy Songs (1923) and The Opry House (1929).
Sex, money, power. What could be clearer than the opening shot of the movie, with chorus girls scantily clad in coins? What does a girl have to do to get a decent meal? And, how far can a good girl go before she becomes a bad girl?
The Gold Diggers was a hit play in 1919, running a year and a half on Broadway. A silent version was made in 1923 and the first talking "Gold Diggers" movie was made in the crash year of 1929....

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