Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

GazerRise Fantastic!

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

JLRVancouver "Gold Diggers of 1935" is golden age Hollywood at its over-the-top best. Busby Berkley, the undisputed master of epic song and dance numbers, pulls out all the stops to enchant his depression era audience with escapist fantasies including dancing grand pianos and a surreal Broadway 'day in the life' (to the Academy Award winning song "Lullaby of Broadway"). The humour and acting style are a bit dated and the plot chiffon-light, but everything serves simply to set up the musical numbers, which are superb. All in all: a great film from a different time. Enjoy!

jacobs-greenwood While Busby Berkeley provided only the choreography for the Mervyn LeRoy directed Gold Diggers of 1933, he directed this Musical and provided its dance direction, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. His "Lullaby of Broadway" number, which includes the Harry Warren-Al Dubin Oscar winning Song performed by Winifred Shaw, is a spectacle featuring dozens of choreographed pianos! The story written by Robert Lord and Peter Milne, with a screenplay by Milne and Manuel Seff, is typically silly with enough hijinks and romance to move things along through the musical numbers, which include "I'm Going' Shoppin' With You" and the big finale "The Words Are In My Heart".Dick Powell and Gloria Stewart sing, perform and provide one romantic pairing: he's a desk clerk in medical school, and she's a sheltered heiress staying at the lavishly appointed Wentworth Plaza hotel for the summer season, which culminates in a milk fund charity show. Dorothy Dare and Frank McHugh are another: she's the hotel's hostess, who was originally engaged to Powell's character, and he's Stewart's 4-time divorced brother, and son to Alice Brady's multi- millionaire tightwad mother. She, and Stewart's original fiancé - Hugh Herbert as an even wealthier expert on the history of snuff - are harassed and/or sponged off of by Adolphe Menjou's deadbeat eccentric show producer Nicolai Nicoleff, his set designer (Joseph Cawthorn), the hotel's streetwise stenographer (Glenda Farrell) and even its manager (Grant Mitchell). Singer Shaw plays the cigarette counter girl.

TheLittleSongbird The story is silly and is thin to the extent that you're searching for whether there is one, and for this viewer Gold Diggers of 1933 was the better film. Nonetheless, Gold Diggers of 1935 is still great, even when set in a Depression setting it's still a lot of fun. It is visually wonderful, cleverly photographed and with sumptuous costumes and sets. The songs are melodious and catchy as well as beautiful, The Words Are In My Heart and particularly Lullaby of Broadway were the two standouts. The dialogue is snappy and genuinely funny, the film is warm-hearted and charming all the way through and Berkeley in one of his earliest directing efforts does a fine job directing. The performances serve the film nicely, Dick Powell- in excellent voice- and the astonishingly beautiful Gloria Stuart are good leads(and no Ruby Keeler is not missed), but Gold Diggers of 1935 was one case where the supporting cast were more colourful. Alice Brady is an absolute riot, while Glenda Farrell and Hugh Herbert bring to the table some great wisecracks. But you cannot not mention Bekeley's choreography, it's always a pleasure to watch but here in Gold Diggers of 1935 it's amazing. Lullaby of Broadway contains some of his absolute best choreography(on par with the finale of Footlight Parade and perhaps even better) and is also a number that tells a story, a depressing but very moving one. All in all, a great film and one where Busby Berkeley will not be disappointed, if anything it'd be hard not to be enthralled. 9/10 Bethany Cox

arieliondotcom Two words: Busby Berkeley (BB). If you know anything about movies or dancing (or even direction) you've heard the name and this movie (& others like it) is the reason why. BB's genius is that he "got it.". He understood that film was capable of so much more than being a newsreel or just capturing what you can see on a stage. It's more than an amusement but can be used to actually stimulate surrealistic thought. What Picasso did with color BB did with a palette of black, white & gray. Not only stimulating and simulating surreal dreams, but giving them an uneasy feeling, keeping the dark, sharp edge on the lust others only sought to elicit but never examine. As if to say "Images direct thought & these are the thoughts you're leaning towards...Is this the way for you?", Rod Serling's "sign post up ahead" years out of time. There is (strangely) humor, some rather awful singing, and some other fluff around the Berkeley numbers. But they serve only as a frame. BB's work hits you in the eye & travels to your brain as it has for millions to mimic & mock since then. And it alone makes this movie worth watching.