Gold Diggers of 1935
Gold Diggers of 1935 is a Warner Bros. musical film directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley and starring Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart and Alice Brady, and featuring Winifred Shaw, Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh. The film is best known for the famous Lullaby of Broadway production number, which features Shaw singing the song which won Harry Warren music and Al Dubin lyrics an Academy Award.
In the resort of Lake Waxapahachie, the swanky Wentworth Plaza is where the rich all congregate, and where the tips flow like wine. Handsome Dick Curtis Dick Powell is working his way through medical school as a desk clerk, and when rich, pennypinching Mrs. Prentiss Alice Brady offers to pay him to escort her daughter Ann Gloria Stuart for the summer, Dick cant say no even his fiancee, Arline Davis Dorothy Dare thinks he should do it. Mrs. Prentiss wants Ann to marry eccentric middleaged millionaire T. Mosley Thorpe Hugh Herbert, whos a worldrenowned expert on snuffboxes, but Ann has other ideas. Meanwhile her brother, Humbolt Frank McHugh has a weakness for a pretty face hes been married and bought out of trouble by his mother several times.Every summer, Mrs. Prentiss produces a charity show for the Milk Fund, and this year she hires the flamboyant and conniving Russian dance director Nicolai Nicoleff Adolphe Menjou to direct the show. The parsimonious Mrs. Prentiss wants to spend the least amount possible, but Nicoleff and his set designer Schultz Joseph Cawthorn want to be as extravagant as they can, so they can rake off more money for themselves, and for the hotel manager Grant Mitchell and the hotel stenographer Glenda Farrell, whos blackmailing the hapless snuffbox fancier Thorpe. ........
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