| Gold Diggers of 1937 | |
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| Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
| Screenplay by | Warren Duff Tom Reed (screenplay constructor) |
| Based on | Sweet Mystery of Life (play, 1935) by Richard Maibaum Michael Wallace George Haight |
| Produced by | Jack L. Warner Hal B. Wallis |
| Starring | Dick Powell Joan Blondell Glenda Farrell Victor Moore |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Edited by | Thomas Richards |
| Music by | Harold Arlen (music) & E.Y. Harburg (lyrics) and Harry Warren (music) & Al Dubin (lyrics) |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Gold Diggers of 1937 is a Warner Bros. movie musical directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, who were married at the time, with Glenda Farrell and Victor Moore.
The film features songs by the teams of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, and Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It was based on the play "Sweet Mystery of Life" by Richard Maibaum, Michael Wallach and George Haight, which ran briefly on Broadway in 1935.[1][2] Warren Duff wrote the screenplay with the assistance of Tom Reed, who was billed as "Screenplay constructor".
This is the fifth movie in Warner Bros.' series of "Gold Digger" films, following the now lost films The Gold Diggers (1923), a silent film, and the partially lost sound film Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), as well as Gold Diggers of 1933 – a remake of The Gold Diggers and the first to feature Busby Berkeley's extravagant production numbers – and Gold Diggers of 1935. Gold Diggers of 1937 was followed by Gold Diggers in Paris (1938).
- ^ Richard Maibaum went on to write such James Bond films as From Russia with Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964).
- ^ IBDB Sweet Mystery of Life