42nd Street Movie Ciip I'm Young And Healthy2

[@OLD_SOUL1900]

One of the best musicals of the Golden Age of Hollywood!😚 And oh! The choreography!😀 I love it at 2:50 the music is fantastic!😉 And 3:07 you can see excited Ginger Rogers! And that over-head view!🤗

[@oldmovieman7550]

Probably one of the most iconic musical numbers ever and most dont even realize it.

[@piev5060]

oui

[@Dutchfan33]

@FoPo4 The girls on the turntable are from 1st to last .: Toby Wing (1915-2001) ,Loretta Andrews (1911-2004) ,Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) ,Pat Wing (1916-2002) ,Una Merkel (1903-1986) ,Ruth Eddings (1908-1995) ,Edna Callahan (1912-2007) ,Renee Whitney (1912-1972)...Then Toby again...

[@algerhiss8142]

only a gay would find that out and then parade the info

[@ladydominion8632]

@@algerhiss8142 Alger chill man

[@Theaddora]

@@algerhiss8142 I appreciate the info. If you can't say something nice, just shut up.

[@joelonzello4189]

Caught this last nite. Toby was a stunner. What a Face 😘

[@mrequi1]

Actually, after 1938 her name was Toby Wing Merrill. Cuz she married Dick Merrill

[@JoseCortes-on6uy]

It's amazing how a movie made 85 years ago is still so entertaining and so full of nifty surprises, like that startling overhead shot at 3:12. The music is fantastic.

[@iainrobb2076]

Busby first did that in 1932's Night World, a film that exists in a very good print still but which has never been released on DVD.

[@juansequera5237]

I'm answering in 2023, 90 years after this film premiered! This number is, as it has always been, simply eye-filling. We struggle to imagine the impression it must have had on the moviegoing public back in 1933!

[@lesleycunningham8548]

Watching this makes me miss my grandma a lot i love you nelly . My best true friend rip 1904 , 1984

[@sloanfinley1229]

My Grandpa made me watch this and I never forgot it! He said the choreography would never be matched by anyone else, and he was right! Also, great lyrics! Why don't we have this now, in any songs or productions????

[@mrequi1]

Its old fashioned and if our choreography hadn't far surpassed 1932 by now, we'd still be watching silents

[@mrequi1]

Yah the choreography has been surpassed at least 75 years ago

[@JC-nl3nh]

because the wrong people clearly won ww2 and destroyed western culture and subverted our people with negroid culture.

[@MsAppassionata]

No one else has said it, so let me be the first - I love the way Dick Powell sings this number. Love the song too.

[@georgemorley1029]

A great song and dance man. Serious actor later as well. Departed too soon, might have been poisoned with radiation and developed cancer (along with one third of the cast and crew) when shooting the Conqueror in 1957 on top of an old nuclear test site and sadly died in 1964. His wife said it was due to chain smoking but the radiation can’t have helped either.

[@wvanderwahl]

Iconic, legendary musical number. Dick Powell really was incredible. The set design was incredible- the dancers , amazing.

[@sprague49]

Ten years after lighting up the screen with his Irish tenor in Warner Bros musicals, Dick Powell was playing hard boiled detectives and film noir tough guys at Paramount. By the 1950's he was directing film and television. What a talented guy!

[@VinMar-m6w]

Dick Powell was American. From Arkansas.

[@allanmoore4353]

​@@VinMar-m6w, absolutely true, "Irish Tenor" is sometimes used referring to a way of tenor singing.

[@njlillycline]

This is one of those special things in life that helps you carry on. And that’s exactly what it was produced for. People don’t even look the same anymore, there was so much life in their eyes here

[@OLD_SOUL1900]

😢 It's a shame.

[@blackbrownbeige55]

ICONIC....absolutely iconic even during the 2020 Pandemic. I was lucky enough to see this on "the big screen" in one of those great "Movie Palaces" with its original Wurlitzer in the 1990s. There is nothing like Busby Berkeley musicals... Berkeley was an absolute Genius in creating the landmark 1930s "Musical Production Number"

[@darthstarkiller1912]

Was so bored last year during quarantine that I watched this and other Busby Berkeley films. Loved them ever since.

[@ric60100]

85 years later and still a classic. Talk about timeless!

[@phillyflash]

Busby Berkely was nothing short of true genius! What a showman,

[@Jotaemesg]

To my taste, by far the best musical number ever! Glossy, glorious black and white, beauty everywhere, unbelievable shots, dynamic, and certainly young and healthy!

[@terrymcgee3504]

Hello! The song got stuck in my head because it has this provenance...bull, I just like the the song for what it is.

[@errolfan]

The "Leg Shot" at the end is a classic!

[@georgemorley1029]

After three weeks a leg ain’t nothing to me but something to stand on!

[@errolfan]

@@georgemorley1029 I take you're referring to Guy Kibbee's jaded comment after 3 long weeks of watching rehearsals. I'm not a leg man, but I still love the curving movement of the camera, between them, with a close-up of the principals faces at the end.

[@iainrobb2076]

Busby Berkeley was one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. The breathtaking quality of his work is absolutely timeless.

[@robertchesnosky5427]

THE BLONDE IS TOBY WING ONE OF THE CUTEST GIRLS WHO EVER LIVED. EVERYBODY LOVED TOBY. BING MENTIONS HER IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RIP TOBY. ♡♡♡

[@juliag.5114]

Ginger and Powell were dating at that time, and in the HD version you can see she winks at him at 1:55 and he holds her arm.. He even forgets to lip sync for a second. Around that time they also made Twenty Million Sweethearts, a very nice film where they played a couple

[@nigelmitchell351]

Wonderful, the way Ginger looks back at Dick at 1.17, looks so genuine, she's not acting. What a legacy of joy to have left the world.!

[@rosemarycallsthegodd]

@@nigelmitchell351 Ginger Rogers isn't the main actress in this scene though? She only had a small part in 42nd Street.

[@BethDiane]

That's not Ginger Rogers, I think her name is Toby Wing. Ginger Rogers was Anytime Annie.

[@1928jazz]

Ginger was actually dating film director Mervyn Leroy at that time.

[@locojohn6637]

Love this music!! I play it on the piano. Harry Warren was a master!

[@juanfranciscoreacts]

Who's here in 2021 and / or under 40 and loves this stuff.

[@plutoshearer3650]

I'm from 2021, and I'm 19 yrs old. And all i watch are silent films, Pre-Code films, and 1940s,1950s,1960s.

[@darthstarkiller1912]

I'm 29, and I fell in love with Busby Berkeley's musicals last year while stuck at home due to the quarantine. Such catchy songs as well.

[@andrewdobbs6205]

Absolutely incredible! Dick Powell had the most soothing voice.

[@1966425]

He was an amazing talent. Many people don't know he completely re-invented himself later going from a singer/light comedy actor to a tough guy in some great 'film noir's from the 40's to directing until his untimely death in 1963.

[@ric60100]

My favorite song from my favorite musical. One of the ladies on the turntable was Ginger Rogers.

[@emersontomasini9495]

Really amazing. 💙 Can you put automatic subititles with translation to portuguese, dude? A hug.

[@edbrown8254]

I love that. Busby Berkeley was a genius. I really enjoy the hot jazz trumpet too.

[@sroozrloos4284]

Tell that to Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbeck and Artie Shaw.

[@acyutanandadas1326]

And Wynton and Branford Marsalis can play some mean Bach too

[@MsAppassionata]

Let’s not forget (since we’re mentioning great Jazz musicians) the greatest of them all: Mr. Louis Armstrong!

[@peteratkinson922]

Yes. Who was in these bands? They play hot. By 1932-3, soloists had come of ages in the mainstream. Without the more obvious showboating and worst excesses of the approaching swing era

[@1966425]

Toby Wing was absolutely gorgeous! Hard to believe she was only 17 in this clip. I wish her career had been longer but apparently she married a famous pilot and retired from acting. Movies from this era were so very special.

[@kayjohayden]

God you should be like me and do your research properly :)

[@ronalds.658]

Toby Wing was popular in her day, and is the only person with star on Hollywood Blvd that never said a word on screen. She was beautiful, and obviously a young bloomer.

[@39thala]

​@God, what does any of that have to do with how gorgeous she was? lol.

[@wvanderwahl]

She looked absolutely gorgeous and had the appearance of an upcoming star. Much of her work on screen was uncredited according to Wikipedia. She's truly an obscure performer.

[@musicus11]

@@ronalds.658 Did she not have a line or two in Murder at the Vanities? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

[@lcs1956]

The sequence starting at 2:46 is a masterpiece of syncopated dancing. Every foot and arm movement is timed with the beat in almost military precision.

[@burnett.burnett]

Not surprising since Busby Berkeley started out choreographing military parades.

[@mrequi1]

@@burnett.burnett Well, not really. Berkely was in the military, but I'm not sure he ever choreographed anything while there. But, I could be wrong. I was once. It was the worst 45 seconds of my life

[@scotpens]

@@mrequi1 I believe Berkeley got a lot of ideas for his routines from close-order drills he learned in the army.

[@mrequi1]

@@scotpens You are correct

[@mrequi1]

@@scotpens Yes he did

[@ric60100]

The style of movie we will never see again.

[@lacouerfairy]

Toby Wing looked like Shirley Temple. An adorable cherubic face!

[@nedmerrill5705]

I'm young and healthy And you've got charms It would really be a sin Not to have you in my arms I'm young and healthy And so are you When the moon is in the sky Tell me what am I to do? If I could hate you I'd keep away But that ain't my nature I'm full of vitamin A, say I'm young and healthy So let's be bold In a year or two or three Maybe we will be too old

[@wilfordfraser6347]

pas me a hanky... movie's back then had such CLASS

[@globaltvandmovies4905]

Great Song and Routine. Toby wing was certainly a stunner.

[@vastiesmith9356]

These were great show. Entertaining great songs dancing and PG!! Pure entertainment

[@hardybar1]

At 2:07 Powell makes a hilarious stab at a "jazz break", which cracks me up every time.

[@tomashdown8746]

Fantastic, playing Billy Lawyor in school musical! :)

[@macairl]

By far my favorite number of the whole movie

[@louislamonte334]

Tobey Wing is a TOTAL BABE!!!

[@timothybrown5802]

Totally agree

[@maggiekoch9348]

Good golly, this is one peppy, smooth routine! The screen lights up with the dance numbers and bouncy, charming lyrics. They don't make them like this anymore.

[@gloriahanes6490]

To think if these women were still alive they would be great great grandmothers!

[@godzi11amovies]

Can't get this tune out of head Great short B.B. Number!

[@themermaidstale5008]

The girl Dick Powell is singing to is Toby Wing. The Wikipedia article about Toby states she was ‘once called “the most beautiful chorus girl in Hollywood”.’ I found out what her name was from commenter Dutchfan33.

[@davidgottlieb531]

She was in many of the Busby Berkeley musicals of that time. And yes she is amazingly beautiful.

[@marcosandreshansbelger1325]

A pre-Code scene, no doubt.

[@filmescolecoesdoclaudio7024]

Marcos Andres Hansbelger yes, the movie was released in 1933, one year before the Hays Code!!

[@slobomotion]

I saw this in NYC perhaps some 25 years ago and was fortunate to see it on a big screen, though I don't remember the place or the occasion. It simply astonished me -- I'd known about Berkeley from the "Crackpots and Visionaries" series, but this whole movie is just unimaginable until experienced in total. I love how the end inspired the "Bowling Brunhilda" sequence from THE BIG LEBOWSKI, with fabulous music added. Yeow! Thanks and thanks to expos73 for sharing this with me!

[@michelleregis6181]

Dtck was a sweetie, i loved his young boy charm💖💖💖

[@cynthiafeagin6956]

Because he was from arkansas.southern charm.

[@barrythomas7336]

The singer at the beginning of this clip is Dick Powell, who played many roles like this in 30s musicals. Would you believe that, in the 40s and 50s, he would turn into a tough-guy in film noir and Westerns?

[@robynmorgan1325]

I love this movie!!

[@marysue7165]

Always a favorite number. One of the best

[@lucygeddes8409]

wow wow wow why aren't films made like this anymore

[@user-oq8xq9lp3p]

Because films like this were incredibly objectifying women and reinforcing patriarchy that's why. Read Mulvey's article on visual pleasure and narrative cinema and you will understand

[@jamesmccleneghan3641]

Erika St-Pierre yeah bullshit. The reason they aren’t made anymore apart from the fact that musicals fell out of popularity is that there is no talent in Hollywood like this anymore.

[@Ibdman2000]

Thank you for posting this

[@jourwalis-8875]

A Busby Berkeley masterpiece!

[@johnquinlan6756]

That glance at Ginger Rogers at 2:01 had me dying!!

[@OLD_SOUL1900]

Ginger is at 1:55 I see who you're talking about. She shakes her head, as if saying, ya dope!😆

[@cjurschik]

Kind of love how pissed off Una Merkel looks at 2:03 :)

[@khussein6409]

AWESOME!

[@ric60100]

Great song from a classic film.

[@michellejones2416]

I love this song.

[@MerleOberon]

I need to go out and get some Vitamin A!

[@therealfuturenobody]

This is still enjoyable 80 years after it was filmed. Busby Berkeley was a visionary with this then-new media. At 3:13, the way he has the chorus dancers arranged, they look like a living shrimp cocktail. Brilliant. The lyrics leave something to the imagination. They are both "young & healthy, so let's be bold, in a year or two or three maybe we will be too old." This is romantic; it leaves the eroticism to the viewer. Dick Powell is suave; Toby Wing is gorgeous (even as a peroxide blonde). At 2:26, they part lips after their PG-13 kiss. Look more closely, and you'll see the chemistry between Ms. Wing and Mr. Powell. As the camera pulls out and the foreground lights dim, one can see smitten smiles on their faces. Ms. Wing's eyes dart left (3:54) as the camera comes out of the chorus dancer leg tunnel at the end of the number. They left it in, and admittedly until i saw this youtube clip, I'd never noticed in the dozen or so times I'd watched the film. It's comforting to know that older clips are being preserved electronically.

[@MerleOberon]

the real futurenobody living shrimp cocktail, thanks for the laugh!

[@MerleOberon]

the real futurenobody living shrimp cocktail, thanks for the laugh!

[@aaroncook3226]

that kiss at 2:20 is epic!

[@onlybosslion9267]

❤️ those sweet old movies. 😊

[@MakedaPhillips]

Thanks for putting the full version up!

[@soapycakebear]

Wonderful !!!

[@pollysbuddy]

Cute song from my parents' day.

[@kaldesyzdi595]

Grampa: I never thought it would come to this when I fought in the first World War. Lenny: First World War? Why do you keep calling it that? Grampa: Oh, you'll see!

[@franklyngisultura7506]

I get it, Busby was a veteran of that war.

[@GenniBGood]

In the American spirit, we were all this young and healthy, and goofy, once upon a time.

[@peterashford7855]

listen to Art Tatum play this!!! fantastic

[@alittlethingcallnic]

it was because he worked in the air corps in ww1,therefore he constantly had an birds eye view.

[@murraymae]

Check out toby wing when she comes around on the turntable thing. She is TOTALLY not smiling until she thinks the camera is on her! Ive always cracked up at that!

[@murraymae]

Yeah, youre right---and so many say Berkeley was such a taskmaster!!! Regimented because of the army-- Didn't like multiple takes and Esther Williams and Ruby Keeler and others said that he would literally kill you to get the shot perfect! I don't know why everyone wasnt killed jumping into that pool in the "Waterfall" number!!

[@globaltvandmovies4905]

Toby was amazing. Well Sung by dick Powell.

[@ctwhalerman]

If it wasn't so amazing, it would be significant just having Ginger Rogers in the line.

[@nathanmulroy8313]

That kiss

[@Northatlantic2012]

Amazing!

[@wallofvideo]

did busby berkeley ever explain what inspired him to choreograph those aerial views of geometric patterns?

[@Musicradio77Network]

3:49 was the inspiration to a music video called "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift. That was 86 years before this. I remember the movie, and it one of many pre-code films from that era.

[@KP-eu2bb]

+Musicradio77 Television Network 81 years. 42nd street came out in 1933

[@wilfordfraser6347]

Wow...Toby' Wing's father would later survive the Bataan death march and her brother became a billionaire. Never expected any of that.

[@gloriahanes6490]

Dick Powell was a hot box office hit!!

[@globaltvandmovies4905]

Great music

[@gregsmith7428]

Buzz really had an eye for beautiful girls. Toby Wing was a good choice for Dick Powell. The leg tunnel at the end is classic!😘

[@sseattleboy]

.....beyond the talent and productions, this film moves at a delightful pace--must have been hard to edit ?

[@brucewelnack6382]

Toby Wing was only 17 when this was filmed. Had a cute southern accent too. Total package.

[@bec257]

here from ‘in the gloaming’

[@jgowin66]

Serious LEGS in this clip. WOW !

[@alexfernandohuenten1374]

exelent

[@harrylazard]

Bing does a great cover of this song...

[@markduffy3717]

Lucky man!

[@Melissa0774]

This is the guy in that Simpson's Halloween episode where they did War of the World's.

[@flakyace]

toby wing was so cute,, she and her sister were goldwyn girls.........

[@robertchesnosky3508]

TOBY WING. WOW!!!

[@claudemartin-mondiere9429]

This was the introduction of "The Avocado Affair" telling about the health benefits with recipes. I like millennials rediscovering how to eat simple organic can take them to age graciously.

[@donnatlaw6172]

Shut up! Fer chrissakes.

[@gregsmith1115]

The leg tunnel shot is hot hot HOT!

[@donnatlaw6172]

Love those chunky thighs...

[@millermark445]

Dick Powell could have probably sang opera if he had wanted to.

[@jamesryan6008]

It was nice that both Ginger Rogers and Una Merkel appeared as chorus girls.

[@davidgottlieb531]

Ginger Rogers as "Any time Annie"

[@gregoryagogo]

WITH each of those overhead kaleidoscopic shots, I wonder how many times they went around to make sure they got the right shot! Probably wasn't even set to music...just someone marking the time by clapping or something, or counting...

[@oldtykesmith2317]

Amazing

[@29caddy]

Not just young and healthy but old and healthy, too. Average death age of all of them is 84.3 years; neglecting Whitney who died at 60, it's 87.7 years. Whatever they were doing must have agreed with them.

[@MerleOberon]

Toby Wing 2016

[@31brunswick]

MerleOberon 🙂

[@halloranedward]

what has happened to "shuffle off to buffalo" ??? seems to have disappeared from youtube.

[@MerleOberon]

halloranedward one of my favorites also

[@Muswell]

halloranedward It's on here. Warner keep taking clips off. So stupid coz folk want to admire this history.

[@vmf226]

Shout out to the Big Lebowski!

[@freddylubin]

Has anyone commented on the "Big Lebowski" quote from this, when the Dude glides under the women's legs?

[@therealfuturenobody]

yep, someone did. imitation is the most sincere form of flattery ;-)

[@vin.handle]

That is 18-year old Toby Wing playing opposite Dick Powell.