You've Never Seen - GOLD DIGGERS of 1933

[@billritch3988]

This was the first classic Hollywood musical of the 1930s that I saw. I was a freshman in college and I saw it on film in a college auditorium. I was hooked forever. WOW!

[@jearnott]

An absolute Classic - it’ll never be forgotten!

[@darthstarkiller1912]

Saw this movie and other Busby Berkeley musicals last year while I was bored during quarantine. Instantly fell in love with all of them. Such wonderful casts and amazing choreography. Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell were wonderful in all the ones they were in together.

[@DaarkCloud]

This is literally my favorite movie. I watch it frequently

[@FatherMalone]

Daark Some films you need to be in the proper mood to enjoy...Gold Diggers is the exception. It puts you in the mood you wish to be.

[@DaarkCloud]

@@FatherMalone I totally agree!

[@josiepkat]

@@FatherMalone Amen!! Whenever I feel bad - this is the go to movie.

[@robertsmith5970]

I totally agree, this and Footlight Parade. I also think Ruby Keeler was one of the most beautiful women ever.

It really is a very joyful movie

[@LorraineMcFly]

Gold Diggers of 1933 served as my introduction to Ruby Keeler (Who has ended up becoming my favorite actress), Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Warren William and many more. The first half of this film is simply astounding. Sharply written dialogue being delivered by a cast that is having so much fun with the material. The music is catchy and the dance numbers are stunning. This along with films like 42nd Street, Dames, Footlight Parade and Colleen are pure escapism to this very day.

[@mariegeorge8865]

I have the Busby Berkeley DVD collection, but the best one, "Gold Diggers 1933," is not included. I will buy it one day. Love these movies!

[@louisbrizzolara7209]

Thank god for WGN Chicago. On Saturday afternoons when here wasn't a Cub's game nor a White Sox's game, they would air the Hollywood Classics. I glued to the TV.

[@richarddavis7778]

This is a superbly balanced, entertaining and intelligent appraisal.

[@FatherMalone]

Richard Davis Thsnk you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@steveneardley7541]

Considering how old this film is, it's amazing how much interest and vitality it still has. Joan Blondell is the center of the movie, and that explains a lot of it.

[@jtcarrey]

One of my favorite films of all time! ❤️❤️❤️

[@FatherMalone]

Juliette Tinelle Hard to deny its simple elegance.

[@jtcarrey]

@@FatherMalone just realized I've commented on this before haha I love it so much I added a new comment

[@FatherMalone]

@@jtcarrey add all you like

[@spiritbrother]

Great introduction to the film, the period, the actors and creators. Wonderful that you posted this. Love your comments.

[@FatherMalone]

spiritbrother Thank you!

[@WGARVA]

It's nice to hear Joan Blondell honored appropriately.

[@douglaso6428]

Thank you for highlighting this film… The realism portrayed by this fantasy film factory left an impression on me as a child that I have never forgotten (age 61) I get chills every time Joan Blondell sings "my forgotten man" and every time that amazing shot of the men on the breadline, becomes a conveyor belt passing by the camera revealing hungry, wary, and weary souls turning up their collars against the cold with hardened expressions on their vulnerable faces. I have loved and studied film all my life. KZbin is an amazing place to present and convey it. Thank you so much for caring enough to do so...

[@tannenottup5036]

I love this film!! I've watched it countless times, I think I was about 4 when I watched this the first time. My parents actually ended up recording a video tape of TCM airing 42nd Street, this, and Gold Diggers of 1935 as well. I've adored classic musicals since!

[@joeok8641]

"I've Got To Sing A Torch Song" (Dubin-Warren) is from this film.

[@marthashaffer8295]

Thank you, very nicely done. This is such a wonderful movie.

[@FatherMalone]

Martha Shaffer my pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@missphotography92]

Thank you so much for uploading this! I am a huge fan of vintage and golden era movies and I literally jumped with happiness when I saw this :)

[@FatherMalone]

missphotography95 My pleasure. So glad you enjoyed it. Have you seen Footlight Parade? It's my favorite of the era.

[@missphotography92]

No, but it's on my list :)

[@pelosistaint246]

Just finished watching it. Amazing!

[@craigwright2977]

I've seen it a couple times - but your video makes me want to watch it again. Thank you.

[@FatherMalone]

It's always worth a look. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@taylordowning2533]

This is a great musical. I really love Warner Brothers films from the early thirties pre-code area. I feel as though when the Hays Code became more strict, Warner Brothers lost some of that magic. Imo, the musicals were no longer as good and became more like B pictures, while the earlier films had great screenplays, great casts, and amazing costumes

[@FatherMalone]

Taylor Downing Could not agree more. Just a year or two later and a number like Honeymoon Hotel would never have been allowed in this film. But post-WWII films became just as interesting as the pre-code era in ways they couldn't have fathomed earlier. There are constant rhythms of loose and tight values that always produce gems.

[@taylordowning2533]

oughtfivefilms very true. MGM produced some of the best musicals during and after World War II. Columbia, 20th Century Fox, Samuel Goldwyn, also produced great musicals during that time. But you make a great point.

[@bixlives]

Bravo for all the wonderful work you put into making this video about "Gold Diggers of 1933" ! It may have been mentioned in one of the comments, but I would like to remind folks about the outstanding orchestrations and arrangements that were done by Ray Heindorf for this film. The combination of the work of Ray Heindorf, Busby Berkeley, the dancers, all the singers, story and sets make this STILL an exciting and important film 90 years later !

[@movieswithsammykitty]

The Forgotten Man number is so spectacular!

[@FatherMalone]

Truly breathtaking

[@danielthoman7324]

the forgotten man number with Joan Blondell is probably the best of any musical ever made. 👍👍

[@Muswell]

Probably seen it a hundred times. A great film !

[@waynem7634]

Great review with lots of bonus information!!!

[@sakaridis]

Easily in my top 10 of all time. I've loved this movie ever since I first saw it at age 7 or 8 back in the early 80s! Excellent video too!

[@FatherMalone]

Thank you. Love it as well

[@1966425]

Thank you for such a great, informative video. I'm such a nut over the films of the 30's and 40's. Warner Bros. definitely had a great stable of character actors during those years. I believe Ruth Donnelly, Hobart Cavanaugh, Alan Jenkins and the great Frank McHugh were also in some musicals of the era. It seems these actors were in almost every Warner Bros. film of that era along with Guy Kibbee, Joan Blondell, and Aline MacMahon. Truly the greatest period in Hollywood history.

[@steveweinstein3222]

Yes, Metro had the stars, but Jack Warner had the characters.

[@EMMALEEMC]

this breakdown was so well put together. i've seen (& obsessed) about the film numerous times but wanted to hear other insight. love your voiceover & editing as well 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@FatherMalone]

Thank you

[@joeok8641]

Dames, Wunderbar, Footlight Parade & 42nd Street are in the series with this film.

[@jtcarrey]

This has always been one of my favorite films! It's absolutely amazingly wonderful :)

[@JimmyOgilvie52]

Well, as a matter of fact, I have seen it numerous times, and have always loved this incredible picture! In the 50s and 60s when I'd get home from school, it was on TV in the afternoons (in NYC) often enough for it to become one of my favorites! And yes .... I knew Joan Blondell "when"! lol

[@clintonearlwalker]

I know the "Goldiggers" came back in 1933, but I've been looking up the "Golddigers of Broadway" 1929. It was made at a very important time for Hollywood. It was the second "all talking, all color" film made by Warner Brothers. I worked as a projectionist at a drive in, I can tell you there is a pretty big difference between a silent film, and one that has sound. The "two strip" Technicolor process was just being invented and super complicated. By the time I started running projectors in the 1960's Technicolor was nearly perfected and probably the best color process for motion pictures, (other than maybe specialty processes).

[@traingirl09]

As a huge fan of these classic age movies, you're video is on point! Gold Diggers of 1933 is a great Pre-code era film that is just great in its own right! Catchy songs, amazing choreography, sets, and great production in all aspects down to its core. I own it on both digital and DVD (cause why not). I have gotten a few friends into old movies just from this gem.

[@craigmartin3827]

Loving your informative and inspiring reviews! Thank you.

[@FatherMalone]

Craig Martin thank you so much for watching! It's nice to hear someone is enjoying them. please feel free to share the videos.

[@deadpan80]

Just caught this the other day on TCM - very entertaining

[@anthonycrnkovich5241]

On-spot review of this wonderful film. I'm always hard pressed to pick my favorite between GOLD DIGGERS OF1933, 42ND STREET and FOOTLIGHT PARADE. Busby Berkeley had an amazing triple header of hits that year.

[@FatherMalone]

Footlight Parade is probably the best of them. I mean, it has Cagney.

[@anthonycrnkovich5241]

@@FatherMalone Yes, James Cagney is terrific in FOOTLIGHT PARADE - he and Joan Blondell have great chemistry, and "By A Waterfall" is the definitive Berkeley number. I also really like Warner Baxter in 42ND STREET and that film's gritty, backstage drama. It's got an overall cohesion of elements that exemplify the Berkeley musical in the most streamlined manner. GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 gives us Blondell again and nails the Depression era, going out with that fabulous "Remember My Forgotten Man" finale. So, for me, all three films rate a solid 10.

[@OLD_SOUL1900]

😮 I LOVE THIS FILM! My thanks for posting! I learned a great deal- fun facts! Ginger's singing is stellar...too bad "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song" was cut. Again, thanks!😁😉

[@billdonaldson7690]

One of my all time favorites. Thank you, oughtfivefilms, for the informative narration - my feelings exactly.

[@bdiaz426]

One of my all time favorites. 🌟💛🌟💛🌟💛🌟

[@alg11297]

The My Forgotten Man number wasn't supposed to be in the film. It was shot and one of the Warner Brothers was so impressed with it that he insisted it be added on. As it's pre-code there are a number of off color jokes that just fly by.

[@biggerock]

To be fair, the bonus for veterans of WWI was to be paid out in 1938; 20 years after the armistice. The bonus army wanted the money five years before it was due, and the government simply wanted to stick to its original agreement.

[@waynem7634]

Excellent review!

[@FatherMalone]

Thank you, sir.

[@hoozle]

I really enjoyed this, thank you.

[@XX-gy7ue]

BRAVO !!!!

[@HollyCranfan]

This is an awesome pre-code and the opening scene is so cute with Ginger Rogers. She was goofing during rehearsal singing pig Latin. and they said hey leave that in.

[@FatherMalone]

She's absolutely transcendent. They're making an Astaire biopic? Let's focus on the real talent here.

[@PUAlum]

This was a great review! Thanks.

[@FatherMalone]

Thanks for watching!

[@KindaLikeWater]

Great video and information! I really hope you do more on classic Hollywood films! Especially now that we've lost Robert Osborne.

[@FatherMalone]

KindaLikeWater Thank you so much! I'm working on some more classics right now. Feel free to recommend me to TCM. 😉

[@berjaboy]

Seen it many times! Great film with some fairly daring subject matter. It was pre-code. Ruby Keeler, "the fastest tap dancer to date" is an odd title. I always read that she was known for her rather awkward and clunky tap dancing. She was would always look at her feet when she danced, a no-no in the industry. Also her singing was like nails on a chalkboard. She was in a bunch of Berkeley films at the time, mainly because she was married to Al Jolson, a Warner Bros big shot. That said, Busby Berkeley was a genius. All his dance routines centered on groups, women dancing and moving in unison that created large spectacles that could never fully be seen or fit in any true Broadway theater. Nonetheless they were spectacular. Very different then the more intimate dance routines they were doing at RKO at the time, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

[@MostIngenious]

Speaking of metatextual moments, there's a great one where the producer says he'll fire Warren & Dubin and hire Dick Powell's character instead!

[@FatherMalone]

Martin Hennessee That's true! It's an amazing flick. Thanks for watching!

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

How little has changed in terms of government uncaring response to the plight of vets - now returned from the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

[@Mister-Smith-6079]

Excellent video!! Sorry to be negative but I just want to clear up that the Technicolor film fragment shown at 01:12 is "ON WITH THE SHOW" (1929), and NOT "Gold Diggers Of Broadway" [Technicolor] (1929). Easy mistake because both of these 1929 movies were shot in Technicolor. Sadly the first "Gold Diggers Of Broadway" film (1929), starring Winnie Lightner is now a LOST FILM, apart from 3 significant clips. Luckliy we still have the MASSIVE Technicolor "finale" which was found in England in the 1990's.

[@vertxxgg]

GREAT video....Busby is the highest guy in movies history

[@missphotography92]

And Mr Berkley is a legend!

[@kamilla1960]

Thanks!

[@gregoryagogo]

I'm a Joan Blondell Fan and I know her from many films, and am always pleasantly surprised when she shows up on screen in a movie I'm watching.... funny her character name in Grease, was "Vie", the same name, as her character in "Will Success Spoil Rock Hudson".

[@mysharyna1741]

I'm guilty of only knowing about Joan Blondell from Grease as a GenXr so thank you for showing me some of her other movies!

[@FatherMalone]

Pleasure is all mine. Definitely check out Footlight Parade. And Night Nurse.

[@robderiche]

Just watched for first time and was genuinely astonished and laughed more than at any movie since Team America. I guess I like musicals now? Nicely done video!

[@FatherMalone]

One cannot resist the musical after gold diggers of 1933

[@petegarrido5406]

Very well presented ! Great voice dude ! The imagination and physically of times gone by is sad but because of film something for today to shoot for . A little less CGI and a bit more the gifts God gave you .

[@judeinfante1447]

A movie like this can get remade if done properly and with respect to the source material

[@tooleyheadbang4239]

Has anyone noticed how powerful the orchestra is in this film?

[@steveweinstein3222]

The greatest movie musical of all time (sorry, Singing in the Rain).

[@randmiller88]

Excellent summary! Not sure what Blu-rays of this movie were available in 2016 (a possible error?), but Warner Archive just released an absolutely stunning Blu-ray that's well worth owning.

[@billriddle9215]

I love these films..the talking dog in Paris had me rolling..Deep Thinker,lol.

[@ericfeman442]

Aline macmahon is probably the most underrated actress. My wife and I like watching her act.

[@benulike]

Brief but illuminating documentary on the fascinating and very pleasing bundle of fun and thrills that is GDo1933. Nicely done. I'm now watch your other videos.

[@jackgrattan1447]

You didn't mention how Dick Powell totally reinvented his image in the '40s from pretty boy crooner to film noir tough guy.

[@FatherMalone]

Didn't feel his tough guy persona was as successful as matinee idol.

[@mollietenpenny4093]

I remember seeing a picture of the violin scene from this movie in an American Girl book about the Great Depression a while back. I looked up and watched the movie on KZbin (before KZbin was really strict) and loved it!😁

[@rowbygoren1830]

Mervin LeRoy also produced “The Wizard of Oz”.

[@bandini22221]

This film is like going back in a time machine to the Great Depression.

[@LuDux]

"It's all about the depression" "We won't have to reherse that"

[@michellelekas211]

Nice synopsis job!

[@robbey10]

By the time, I was 13, I had seen this at least five times.

[@p00pie]

Amazing review. Im gunna go watch it.

[@p00pie]

I had this preconception about old films being boring and puritan, then I finally learn about the Hays Code. I am absolutely blown away. One would think that the Hays Code fundamentally changed American culture, since movies are emulated by people in real life and vice a versa. I wonder if there are lasting effects even today.

[@ronnidillon6831]

Love Busby Berkeley

[@JC-nl3nh]

ive seen it multiple times

[@richardhall916]

Hard to believe watching Ginger Rogers perform were in the money 80 plus years on , on a smartphone

[@MrMsSihrus]

I believe the actor at 2:30 plays a character in HARVESTER pc game

[@n.b.1483]

A lot of the very old musicals are pretty creaky. But not the Warner Bros. musicals, and Gold Diggers of 33 is the best.

[@crazyman8472]

We’re in the money… 🤑

[@sunshinedaydream70]

Berkley was a genius

[@LuDux]

Electric violin orchestra scene as music video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpOxq2duaJykiZY

[@deadpan80]

you failed to mention this is Pre-code, meaning there's lots of bawdy and risque humor that would be noticeably lacking the following year and for the next 30 years

[@FatherMalone]

That's true. Doubtful the film would've looked as it does had it fallen under the Hayes Code.

[@doubleghod]

Joan Blondell was an unsung actress???? "Most" viewers will only recognize her from Grease? I think this guy's statisticians are woefully unsung.

[@FatherMalone]

Thanks for watching!

[@Muertes-tf2oj]

Ruby Keeler may be fast, but she was no match for Cagney when they tap danced side by side in "Footlight Parade."

[@OLD_SOUL1900]

By the way, couldn't have said that ending better.😌

[@quentinkirk3870]

Wasn't Joan Blondell on Dark Shadows?

[@FatherMalone]

In later years she did quite a lot of television but never appeared on Dark Shadows

[@user-hu4gr1bo5g]

Joan Bennett

[@quentinkirk3870]

@@user-hu4gr1bo5g thank you 🙂

[@franznarf]

That's what you're thinking

[@skyeslaton3435]

I have

[@kuklafranandollie]

You left out Joan Blondell’s dubber, Jeane Cowann.

[@FatherMalone]

Excellent catch

[@lostvocals8]

@@FatherMalone kzbin.info/www/bejne/jInQZnZtotB2gM0

[@Yankee_Doodle_Dandy]

1935 has better numbers

[@FatherMalone]

Incorrect

[@Yankee_Doodle_Dandy]

oughtfivefilms I stand corrected. I will admit, this is a better film.

[@phoebexsp122]

@@Yankee_Doodle_DandyLullaby of Broadway is great though.

[@scotpens]

"Gold Diggers of 1935" has that amazing, surreal "Lullaby of Broadway" number, but its story and characters are dull. Everything slows to a crawl between musical numbers.