Gold Diggers of 1935
- Dick Powell: Dick Curtis
- Adolphe Menjou: Nicolai Nicoleff
- Gloria Stuart: Ann Prentiss
- Alice Brady: Matilda Prentiss
- Glenda Farrell: Betty Hawes
- Frank McHugh: Humbolt Prentiss
- Joseph Cawthorn: August Schultz
- Grant Mitchell: Louis Lampson
- Dorothy Dare: Arline Davis
- Wini Shaw: Winny
The Gold Diggers of 1935 ( Original title: Gold Diggers of 1935) is an American musical film directed by Busby Berkeley from 1935 The film is especially known for the choreography to the song Lullaby of Broadway, which was in 1936 awarded with an Oscar. .
Action
In the fictional resort of Lake Waxapahachie is the luxury hotel Wentworth Plaza, where the rich spend their summer holidays. The handsome Dick Curtis (played by Dick Powell) works here as a porter to pay for his medical studies. When the rich Mrs. Prentiss ( Gloria Stuart ) offers him to pay him for the company of her daughter Ann Prentiss ( Gloria Stuart ) over the summer well, he can hardly refuse. Even Dick's fiancee Arline Davis ( Dorothy Dare ) speaks to him, to accept the offer. Mrs. Prentiss wants her daughter to the eccentric millionaire T. Mosely Thorpe III ( Hugh Herbert) marry a middle-aged man who is considered an expert for snuff boxes. However, Ann has other plans. Her brother Humbolt ( Frank McHugh ) has a weakness for beautiful women: he was several times married and divorced; his mother had repeatedly come up with the checkbook to help.
Mrs. Prentiss organized every summer, a charity event for the milk fund. This year, she has been engaged to Russian ballet director Nicolai Nicoleff ( Adolphe Menjou ), which should lead the dance performances. The miserly Mrs. Prentiss wants to spend as little money as possible, but Nicoleff and his designer Schultz (Joseph Cawthorn ) want to make an extravagant show possible on the legs, mainly for diverting money for themselves. Even the hotel manager Lampson ( Grant Mitchell) and the hotel stenographer Hawes ( Glenda Farrell ) and are privy to get their part of the misappropriated money. Hawes blackmailed also happen to be the helpless millionaire Thorpe.
Of course, the committed as watchdogs Dick fall in love with the work entrusted to him Ann, while his ex- fiancee Arline Ann married brother Humbolt. The show will cost their mother Mrs. Prentiss a fortune, but finally she accepts the election of their daughter in the long run is a doctor in the family eventually save money.
Reviews
" As in the previous gold rush film counts here the choreographed show, while the story has more holes. The action comes handy for an hour not budge until finally begins the charity event as a pretext for a choreographed show. [ ... ] The music by Al Dubin and Harry Warren is something next time. Your waltz theme The Words Are In My Heart [...] is a highly effective choreographed ballet of Steinways. The last piece - Lullaby of Broadway sung by Winifred Shaw - is too long ".
" ... We forget the plot: In a film choreography of Busby Berkeley - genius it's all about music and dance, and what he ascends here is great cinema - we only say: 56 Piano! "
Production and broadcasting
The world premiere took place in New York cinema beach on March 14, 1935.
In Germany the film was first shown on 15 February 1970 as a television broadcast in the original version with German subtitles, on 14 November 1995, as a dubbed version.