42nd Street (1933) | |
| Director(s) | Lloyd Bacon |
| Producer(s) | Darryl F. Zanuck (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Musical, Romance |
| Top Topics | Pre-Code Cinema |
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42nd Street Overview:
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)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Picture | Warner Bros. | Nominated |
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Those dancing feet… ’42nd Street’ (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
By Virginie Pronovost on Jun 16, 2024 From The Wonderful World of Cinema” Jones and Barry are doing a show! “ ” You’re telling me? “ When I first saw 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933), its appeal didn’t quite strike me, and, aside from the final musical number, it left me indifferent. I remember renting the film at Montreal’s Nat... Read full article
Silver Screen Standards: Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933)
By Jennifer Garlen on Apr 11, 2023 From Classic Movie Hub BlogSilver Screen Standards: Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933) Every time I watch 42nd Street (1933) I fall in love with Ruby Keeler all over again. Just like Peggy Sawyer, the character she plays in the movie, Keeler was a bright newcomer getting her big break; although she had been dancing on stage... Read full article
Silver Screen Standards: Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933)
By Jennifer Garlen on Apr 11, 2023 From Classic Movie Hub BlogSilver Screen Standards: Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933) Every time I watch 42nd Street (1933) I fall in love with Ruby Keeler all over again. Just like Peggy Sawyer, the character she plays in the movie, Keeler was a bright newcomer getting her big break; although she had been dancing on stage... Read full article
THE UMPTEENTH BLOGATION: 42nd Street, 1933
on Jan 18, 2022 From Caftan WomanTheresa, the CineMaven herself is hosting The Umpteenth Blogathon on January 18th. A tribute to those movies which have an addictive hold on our moving pictures loving souls. Every fan has many such films and HERE we get to gush about one of them. My selection is the energetic, music-filled, cynical... Read full article
42nd Street (1933)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 24, 2019 From 4 Star Films“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
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Quotes from
Ann Lowell: [to chorus girl] It must have been hard on your mother, not having any children.
Dorothy Brock: Now go out there and be so swell that you'll make me hate you!
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Facts about
The groom (Clarence Nordstrom), in the "Shuffle Off To Buffalo" sequence, sings to the bride (Ruby Keeler): "I'll go home and get my panties, you'll go home and get your scanties". In the early 1930s, in the US and Europe, the word for the undergarment "panties" was synonymous with "undies" and applied to both men and women.
As a publicity stunt, a train called 'The 42nd Street Special' traveled from Hollywood to New York City arriving in time for the opening at the Strand theater on 8 March 1933. On the train were Warner contract players who were called to the stage after the movie was shown (according to the review in The New York Times). Included were Joe E. Brown, Tom Mix and his horse, Bette Davis, Laura La Plante, Glenda Farrell, Lyle Talbot, Leo Carrillo, Claire Dodd, Preston Foster and Eleanor Holm.
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