| Gold Diggers of 1933 | |
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| Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy Busby Berkeley (musical sequences) |
| Written by | Screenplay: Erwin S. Gelsey James Seymour Dialogue: Ben Markson David Boehm |
| Based on | the 1919 play The Gold Diggers by Avery Hopwood |
| Produced by | Robert Lord Jack L. Warner |
| Starring | Warren William Joan Blondell Aline MacMahon Ruby Keeler Dick Powell |
| Cinematography | Sol Polito |
| Edited by | George Amy |
| Music by | Harry Warren (music) Al Dubin (lyrics) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 or 96 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $433,000[2][3][4] |
| Box office | $3,231,000 (worldwide rentals)[3][4] |
Gold Diggers of 1933 is an American pre-Code musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It starred Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell. It featured appearances by Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers.
The story is based on the play The Gold Diggers by Avery Hopwood, which had its Broadway run for 717 performances in 1919 and 1920.[5] The play was adapted into a silent film in 1923 by David Belasco, the producer of the Broadway play, as The Gold Diggers, starring Hope Hampton and Wyndham Standing, and again as a talkie in 1929, directed by Roy Del Ruth. That film, Gold Diggers of Broadway, which starred Nancy Welford and Conway Tearle, was one of the biggest box-office hits of that year.
Gold Diggers of 1933 was one of the top-grossing films of 1933.[6] This version of Hopwood's play was written by James Seymour and Erwin S. Gelsey, with additional dialogue by David Boehm and Ben Markson.
In 2003, Gold Diggers of 1933 was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[7][8]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
afiwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Sedgwick, Jon (2000) Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures University of Exeter Press. p.168 ISBN 9780859896603
- ^ a b Glancy, H Mark (1995). "Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 15: 55–73. doi:10.1080/01439689500260031.
- ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 13 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
- ^ IBDB "The Gold Diggers"
- ^ TCM Notes
- ^ "Librarian of Congress Adds 25 Films to National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved October 8, 2020.