Gold Diggers of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBusby Berkeley
Screenplay byManuel Seff
Peter Milne
Story byRobert Lord
Peter Milne
Produced byRobert Lord
StarringDick Powell
Adolphe Menjou
Gloria Stuart
Alice Brady
Hugh Herbert
Glenda Farrell
Frank McHugh
CinematographyGeorge Barnes
Edited byGeorge Amy
Music bySongs:
Harry Warren (music)
Al Dubin (lyrics)
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • March 16, 1935 (1935-03-16)
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Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$567,000[2]
Box office$1,365,000[2]

Gold Diggers of 1935 is an American Warner Bros. musical film directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley, his directorial debut. It stars Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert, Glenda Farrell, and Frank McHugh, and features Joseph Cawthorn, Grant Mitchell, Dorothy Dare, and Winifred Shaw. The songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film is best known for its famous "Lullaby of Broadway" production number. That song, sung by Shaw, also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The screenplay was by Manuel Seff and Peter Milne, based on a story by Robert Lord, who also produced the film, and Milne.

The movie was the fourth in the Gold Diggers series of films, after the silent film The Gold Diggers (1923), the partially lost "talkie" Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), and Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933). The first three films, all financially successful, had all been based on the 1919 play The Gold Diggers; Gold Diggers of 1935 was the first one based on a wholly original story. It was followed by Gold Diggers of 1937 and Gold Diggers in Paris.

  1. ^ Gold Diggers of 1935 at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ 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 16 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551