Adapted from a Broadway play "The Gold Diggers". The original stage production opened on Sept. 30, 1919 at the Lyceum Theatre in New York and ran for 282 performances.
Four sound discs and one sound reel and trailer sound disc plus excerpts are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archives. The excerpts are also featured on a MGM/Au release called the dawn of sound which a copy is held in the Library of Congress.
In a separately filmed trailer, Vitaphone production reel #3070, Conway Tearle acts as master of ceremonies, while other members of the cast do 'bits'.
Only small fragments of the movie (last reel except the final minute) and parts of the soundtracks on disks are known to exist. Please check your attic. (May 1999 update: reel 1 and a further one were recently found.)
Previously produced as a silent film The Gold Diggers.
This was Warner Bros.' second 'All Talking, All Singing, All Color' musical feature, the first having been On with the Show!.
Two reels survive (including the amazing finale) and the complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone discs.
Vitaphone production reels #3438-3448