42nd Street (1933)

42nd Street (1933) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.

42nd Street was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1998.

Academy Awards 1932/33 --- Ceremony Number 6 (source: AMPAS)

42nd Street (1933)

“Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster but you’ve got to come back a star!” – Warner Baxter to Ruby Keeler 42nd Street essentially feels like hallowed ground even today because it single-handedly gave an entire generation of films plentiful ammunition for tropes while ju... Read full article

Re-watching 42nd Street (1933)

Re-watching 42nd Street (1933) On January 24, 2018 By CarolIn Uncategorized So, I?ve been trying to re-watch a lot of films lately. And for some?reason, this was one?of those films that I kept forgetting to re-watch. I saw it millions of years ago, probably 2009 or 201... Read full article

Pre-Code Crazy: 42nd Street (1933)

Okay, y?all. By now, you probably know that I?m not the world?s biggest fan of musicals. But there are some musicals that I simply adore, and I have to admit that 42nd Street is one of them. In fact, until I popped in my DVD to watch the film for this post, I?d actually forgotten just how much I lov... Read full article

Warner Archive: 42nd Street (1933) Sparkles on Blu-ray

The Warner Archive Blu-ray edition of 42nd Street glimmers from the first frame. Even the title card looks magnificent. The credit "Silks by the Cheney Brothers" never looked more glamorous. To see the film that I watched dozens of times as a teenager on a VHS copy recorded from TV this way is almos... Read full article

TCM Classic Film Festival Day 3: WHY BE GOOD? 42nd STREET, EARTHQUAKE!

Day 3 was one filled with favorites and laughs. I started off the day with Why Be Good? (1929), a movie I had seen a few months ago when a new restoration was screened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This same restoration was shown here, and I loved the movie so much the first time that I h... Read full article