42nd Street Comments

  • Amelie 2022-04-07 09:01:08

    7/10. The only historical value of the film is to use the changes of abstract lines to shoot kaleidoscope-style singing and dancing scenes. The most famous scene is the flow of geometric patterns formed by a circular stage and many beauties at the end, and a sea of ​​beautiful women and flowers are spliced ​​together with a large number of overlapping skills. The panoramic view and the camera moving crazily between the thighs, the virtual scene is constantly changing in the box of the train,...

  • Gardner 2022-04-07 09:01:08

    One of the most profitable musicals of the 1930s brought Warner Bros. back from the brink of bankruptcy. Tap diva Ruby Keeler's debut, starring Werner Baxter, Ginger Rogers and Dick Powell, choreographed by Busby Berkeley. Among them, Ruby and Dick later cooperated in [Beauty] [1933 Gold Rush Girl] and other films, which became one of the most paired screen couples at that time. The excerpts are taken from the theme song of the same name of the movie, and the two perform...

  • Taryn 2022-04-07 08:01:02

    It's so interesting to look at the works of Ginger Rogers before he became famous. The future singing and dancing queen actually played a rustic, monocle-wearing, no-show role, and gave the chance to become a hit to others. The image of the noble lady is completely different (mainly because the face is too thin!). Although the last shot is undoubtedly self-justification and intoxication by Berkeley and/or Bacon, it is still very...

  • Felipe 2022-04-07 08:01:02

    Forty-second Street is the epitome of America in the 1930s, where there is murder, a life of hardship, and of course a dream of becoming a big star. The joyous and almost mindless plot undoubtedly implies that the United States has bid farewell to the Great Depression and welcomes the Here comes the singing and dancing of the new era. The brisk footage shows the story behind the theatrical performance. The scenes of the singing and dancing scenes are edited perfectly. The line dance performance...

  • Timmy 2022-04-07 08:01:02

    Forty-second Street is the epitome of America in the 1930s, where there is murder, a life of hardship, and of course a dream of becoming a big star. The joyous and almost mindless plot undoubtedly implies that the United States has bid farewell to the Great Depression and welcomes the Here comes the singing and dancing of the new era. The brisk footage shows the story behind the theatrical performance. The scenes of the singing and dancing scenes are edited perfectly. The line dance performance...

  • Shannon 2022-04-07 08:01:02

    Busby Berkeley's kaleidoscope of legs is blinding. But the real staggering thing about this movie is: this is where it all started! It was 4 years before a star was born in the first episode. After more than 80 years, Hollywood is still conjuring the story of 42nd Street, I mean la la land. Of course, that's the mentally handicapped version left over after so many generations of degradation. However, there are still people who will admire it, and I don't know that it's just for the afterglow of...

  • Berta 2022-04-07 08:01:02

    Big white legs, kaleidoscope, unspoken...

  • Wade 2022-04-07 08:01:02

    Big white legs, kaleidoscope, unspoken...

  • Alejandrin 2022-04-07 08:01:02

    Another supplementary mark. mass...

  • Green 2022-04-07 08:01:02

    I don't feel anything else, but photography really took off. By the way, I feel sorry for the audience who premiered in the film. After the stage play is too "movie-like", they can't see the perspective of God at all. Of course, the audience sitting in front of the screen is naturally It was very enjoyable to watch, and the last scene after the show was...

Extended Reading
  • Opal 2022-04-07 09:01:08

    Mature feelings I haven't seen in a long time

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    This kind of film makes me sigh at the artistic height achieved by Hollywood theaters 80 years ago, especially in terms of stage effects.


    Speaking of the film itself, this film is known as "the originator of all musical clichés", which shows that its historical significance is extraordinary. The...

  • Stone 2022-04-07 08:01:02

    42nd Street: The Myth of Fame and Fortune Never Dies

    Temple won an Oscar when she was 7 years old, but from the day she started learning to dance at age 3, her family has been waiting for her to become famous.

    14-year-old Chaplin wanted a small role in the troupe. The 25-year-old Chaplin is famous all over the world and is a world-renowned mime...

42nd Street quotes

  • Julian Marsh: Sawyer, you listen to me, and you listen hard. Two hundred people, two hundred jobs, two hundred thousand dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It's the lives of all these people who've worked with you. You've got to go on, and you've got to give and give and give. They've got to like you. Got to. Do you understand? You can't fall down. You can't because your future's in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right, now I'm through, but you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and Sawyer, you're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star!

  • Slim Murphy: Hey got a match?

    Pat Denning: Yep... why I guess so... yeah.

    Slim Murphy: Don't happen to know a guy named Pat Denning do ya?

    Pat Denning: Why yes.

    Slim Murphy: We got a message for him. This guy Pat Denning's a pretty wise mug but he ain't wise enough and if he don't lay off that Dorothy Brock dame, it's gonna be just too bad... for Denning, get me?

    Pat Denning: Alright I'll tell him.

    Slim Murphy: Yeah well...

    [punches Pat in the mouth and Pat falls down]

    Slim Murphy: that's so ya don't forget.

    Mug with Murphy: Yeah

    [He and Slim kick Pat then run off]

    Peggy Sawyer: Ohhhhh Pat... Pat... Pat... who were they?

    Pat Denning: Friends... with good advice.