Gold Diggers of 1937
Screening on Film
Directed by Lloyd Bacon.
With Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore.
US, 1936, 35mm, black & white, 101 min.
With Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore.
US, 1936, 35mm, black & white, 101 min.
After being coerced into selling a million-dollar insurance policy to a hypochondriac theatrical producer (Moore), a salesman (Powell) takes on a new role as producer in order to keep his client from going bankrupt. Berkeley’s involvement was primarily limited to two wonderfully staged musical numbers: “Let’s Put Our Heads Together,” which features fifty couples pitching woo in giant rocking chairs, and “All’s Fair in Love and War,” in which Joan Blondell leads a military drill of seventy chorus girls.
