42nd Street (film)

42nd Street is a 1933 American PreCode musical film, directed by Lloyd Bacon. The choreography was staged by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren music and Al Dubin lyrics. The script was written by Rian James and James Seymour, with Whitney Bolton, who was not credited, from the 1932 novel of the same name by Bradford Ropes.

It is 1932, the depth of the Depression, and noted Broadway producers Jones Robert McWade and Barry Ned Sparks are putting on Pretty Lady, a musical starring Dorothy Brock Bebe Daniels. She is involved with wealthy Abner Dillon Guy Kibbee, the shows angel financial backer, but while she is busy keeping him both hooked and at arms length, she is secretly seeing her old vaudeville partner, outofwork Pat Denning George Brent.Julian Marsh Warner Baxter is hired to direct, even though his doctor warns that he risks his life if he continues in his highpressure profession despite a long string of successes he is broke, a result of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. He must make his last show a hit, in order to have enough money to retire on. ........

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