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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...
19 November 1883, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
3 May 1902, New York City, New York, USA
9 April 1900, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
29 March 1908, Fort Madison, Iowa, USA
4 June 1914, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
6 March 1882, El Paso, Texas, USA
June 22, 1891 in New York, USA
31 December 1911, Houston, Texas, USA
25 January 1872, Buffalo, New York, USA
March 2, 1882 in Essex, England, UK
9 February 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 January 1905, San Francisco, California, USA
20 September 1897, Vevay, Indiana, USA
16 March 1878, Shelby City, Alabama, USA
20 January 1896, New York City, New York, USA
16 July 1911, Independence, Missouri, USA
7 February 1904, New York City, New York, USA
23 November 1905, Summerville, Texas, USA
3 June 1912, Waycross, Georgia, USA
14 January 1901, Dallas, Texas, USA
15 July 1885, New York City, New York, USA
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.
February 15, 2004
The strength of a musical is its songs, and this film had a mixed bag.
September 02, 2012
The careful building of the eye-level proscenium that's exploded by swooping cinematic music
April 21, 2003
The result is an absolute spectacular. Not to be missed.
April 08, 2006
Of Golden Age musicals, 42nd Street is about as close to the archetype as they come.
January 11, 2004
One can't say enough good things about what Busby Berkeley did for the musical.
August 08, 2006
The liveliest and one of the most tuneful screen musical comedies that has come out of Hollywood.
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.
June 17, 2009
A deliciously funny musical; racy and light years ahead of its time.
January 26, 2006
Berkeley choreographs chorines and camera with mischievous dexterity.
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.
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.