Movies and shows nowadays are not like what they were back then! I love black and white movies because it makes you wonder~ wonder the color of the outfits, the hair, background! I absolutely love it
There was some dark stuff in those pre-code films. How many other musical numbers include fall-down drunks, attempted rape, attempted suicide, and murder all in the same number?
All the Busby Berkeley musicals are great, but I'd say 42ND STREET is overall my favorite in terms of story. The musical numbers are stronger in GOLDIGGERS OF 1933 and FOOTLIGHT PARADE. Warner Bros. had the best orchestra during the pre-Code Hollywood era.
what people tend to overlook is that this film was by and large directed by Lloyd bacon not busby berkley who just choreographed the dance numbers . all this is not to take anything away from Berkley who's contributions to the film are both significant and brilliant . but let's give bacon his due as well as he too did a great job . From Michael from Yorkshire and proud of it .
It's clear to me that the wonder, magic and might wrought by American songwriters and composers of the early-to-mid 20th Century gave us the pinnacle of entertainment. In the last 70 years, with just a handful of exceptions we are only given pap. How did the dynamic American talents ranks swell so wonderfully, then vanish?
I love Ruby Keeler. And her style of tap dancing was buck n wing, a type of tap which was mostly focused on the feet and not so much on the upper body. Some people call it clunky, but that's how it was supposed to be. If you listen to the tap rhythm sounds which Ruby was making, you can hear how talented she was. Ruby was also beautiful, charming, and the sweetest woman, on screen and in real life. She was known as "the girl next door type"
Thank you for pointing this out. I've read too many comments on Ruby Keelers videos saying that she 'couldn't sing, couldn't dance, couldn't act well, but she was pretty!' and 'She dances like a man!'-she actually looks like she's working hard when she dances which I think is a refreshing contrast compared to the smoother, traditional dancing for women.
Yes this was a style of dancing popular at the time, but which seems odd to us now. If you look at Joan Crawford dancing in the 1920's it's also slightly masculine. When these time periods are replicated for movies or TV there is a tendency to modernize certain things to make them more palatable for today's audience.
I am always amazed and have enjoyed all of Buzby Berkley and Ziegfeld Follies production and the visual effects with such limited equipment compared with today and just love all the talent on screen
Little nifties, from the fifties, Innocent and sweet Sexy ladies, from the eighties, Who are indiscreet They're side by side, they're glorified, Where the underworld can meet the elite Naughty, gaudy, bawdy, sporty, 42nd Street! The big parade goes on for years, its a rhapsody of laughter and tears, Naughty, gaudy, bawdy, sporty, 42nd Street! Come and meet those dancing feet On the avenue, I'm taking you to, 42nd Street! Hear the beat of dancing feet, It's the song I love the melody of, 42nd Street! Little nifties, from the fifties, Innocent and sweet Sexy ladies, from the eighties, Who are indiscreet The big parade goes on for years, its a rhapsody of laughter and tears, Naughty, gaudy, bawdy, sporty, 42nd Street!
For sheer spectacular, entertainment, foot tapping, humming, smiling entertainment..this gem wins hands down!! When they say.."They don't make it like they used to", they aren't kidding!! It is a must see!!
Imagine some relative today sees there grand mother performing this wonderful act looking back to see her . Magical always remind me of boardwalk empire
Frankly, the audio isn't as good as it was at other studios such as at Paramount. I wonder what recording equipment WB was using in '33, having ditched the sound-on-disc system 2 years earlier.
@@moldyoldie7888 A friend of mine who trained at Warner Brothers told me that they used the same Variable Density system (Western Electric) that the majority of the Studios used. Their sound got better in the late 30s, and then they switched to RCA in 1940 and remained with them after that. Frankly, the more minor studios like Universal and Columbia, which were also licensed with Western Electric had better sound than Warners and MGM. It was not so much the recording method, but the talents of the recording engineers and the use of microphones and their placement. There is also something to be said about sound mixes as well.
@@RayPointerChannel Thanks for replying. I tried to find the film(s) where Warners started using the RCA system but gave up. Too many of their films didn't credit either system.
Ruby began as an Irish clog dancer where the entire bottom of the foot hits the floor. That's why she wasnt as light on her feet as other dancers of the period.
John Province thanks! I’m no dancer but it does look like she might be wearing Irish jig type shoes/clogs here, not normal taps like the others- the soles are really thick at the front, and the lacing reminds me of Scottish dancing shoes. Anyway I like it, very musical sound to it and she gets that flapper look dowwwn😎
For all of his “faults”, Busby Berkeley transformed dancing production numbers. Just a few years prior to this film movie musicals were painfully static - Busby knew how to move the bulky cameras and performers, providing spectaculars, which no one ever since has surpassed. …Rowby.
I'm not sure, she wasn't an actress in the main part of the film while they were rehearsing and everything, she just had that one role during the "42nd street" number. It's the same with "Footlight parade", "Golddiggers 33", etc., there are people in those musical numbers who didn't play any parts during the rest of those films
The production and dancing were incredible, and it may have been the most exciting time in human history. I'm especially amazed at the way the female dancers behave. Humans tend to think that they are the most advanced now, but that is not the case. It is said that this period was the most advanced in human history.
Depends what you mean by "advanced." No penicillin or decent prenatal care, male life expectancy in the US was 61. Racism and sexism were everywhere and dictators could and did hide a lot more.
She was "Anytime Annie" - the only time she said no was when she didn't hear the question. She played Abner Dillon's new girlfriend who convinced Julian Marsh to use Peggy Sawyer/Keeler as the injured star's replacement.
Wow how things have changed. I mean yes we have made progress in areas like gender and race issues but overall it looks like those days were the peak of society. I thought life was supposed to always get better than the previous generation but like I said overall it looks like we are steadily going down hill.
Idc what anybody says When I listen to this rendition of the song, all I hear is jazz and gospel It's the blackest main stream picture musical in the pre Hayes code era
It doesn't even sound like she's tap dancing there's no tapping sound. It's just a thump, thump, thump it synced in to coordinate with her foot movement but it's the wrong sound. That's ridiculous.
Love it. That's what made these films so damm enjoyable!! They were preposterous but, hey..people were tougher then. They had thicker skin. The movie going audience could seperate reality from make believe then. People knew these films exaggerated to make a point or paint a picture. One of the best musicles ever made on all fronts!!
Yes, they are all fantastic performers, but so many things "aged like milk" /m. Let's start with the fact that it's New York but almost everyone is yt, it's a jazz and tap number but the only Black performers are street kids who only make a brief appearance, there is a coin-operated "wooden Indian" who is most likely a yt actor in redface, and there is an elaborate (likely uncredited) dance/stunt solo glamorizing rape, suicide, and murder while neighbors and police do nothing. Yes I get that they're trying to show a disinvested neighborhood with high crime, but why not show the woman defending herself and humiliating the assailant? Why not show neighbors helping each other? Why not show people of the many ethnicities who lived there? Why not have Josephine Baker perform the song in a glamorous costume? Oh, right /s. When Ziegfeld cast superstar Baker in the Follies in 1936, critics panned her, restaurants refused to serve her, the show failed, and she went back to France where people treated her as the star she was.
I'm a black American and I say please get over the woke white liberal guilt and enjoy the film! For Gods sake it was made in 1932-33 and we all times were very different back then. My grandmother was 30 when she saw this film during its original release in Los Angeles and always loved it along with her also black friends and relatives. As a matter of fact, past sociaI issues aside, I don't know anybody who doesn't enjoy the great movie classics from the 1930s and 40s. Society and the movie industry have supposedly "progressed" (have relatives who've held excellent positions at W. B. studios) so lets just sometimes forget the toxic modern political correctness and sit back, relax, & enjoy the magnificent stagecraft, fashion, dancing, and acting in these excellent examples of classic American filmmaking.
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Grand! Watched and was enraptured by this performance when I was a child!
Amazing Choreography just brilliant it is really uplifting so when you feel down just watch this you will be smiling in NO Time at all!!!!
Movies and shows nowadays are not like what they were back then! I love black and white movies because it makes you wonder~ wonder the color of the outfits, the hair, background! I absolutely love it
There was some dark stuff in those pre-code films. How many other musical numbers include fall-down drunks, attempted rape, attempted suicide, and murder all in the same number?
Love it!! That's what made them so great!😆😆😆😆
No redo or copy has ever caught the atmosphere of this gem.
Absolute BEST version oF THE best sonG
In the immortal words of Nora Desmond: “I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.”
Now, this is the definition of a big picture!!!!
All the Busby Berkeley musicals are great, but I'd say 42ND STREET is overall my favorite in terms of story. The musical numbers are stronger in GOLDIGGERS OF 1933 and FOOTLIGHT PARADE. Warner Bros. had the best orchestra during the pre-Code Hollywood era.
Under the direction of Leo Forbstein.
what people tend to overlook is that this film was by and large directed by Lloyd bacon not busby berkley who just choreographed the dance numbers . all this is not to take anything away from Berkley who's contributions to the film are both significant and brilliant . but let's give bacon his due as well as he too did a great job . From Michael from Yorkshire and proud of it .
I can only thank those involved for uploading this classic. It matters. Thank you.
When they turn the big cards around and it's New York City....I'm in heaven.
Me too
42nd Street.
Were the dancing buildings inspired by Dada art?
@@stephenmcguire7801 Have to ask Busby Berkeley.
It's clear to me that the wonder, magic and might wrought by American songwriters and composers of the early-to-mid 20th Century gave us the pinnacle of entertainment. In the last 70 years, with just a handful of exceptions we are only given pap.
How did the dynamic American talents ranks swell so wonderfully, then vanish?
Dick Powell's voice was so sharp it could cut thru steel. Loved his tenor voice.
The level of talent and production from these and Ziegfeld Follies is astounding, and today's movies and musicals can't hold a candle to those times.
Too lazy nowadays!
Because there were no bad movies made in the 1930s
I don’t understand why they don’t make musicals (hardly any). The old musicals had dancing, singing, romance, comedy, snappy repartee. I miss them....
@@ccburro1 They're very expensive to produce. This isn't popular music anymore.
@@hudsony777 True but then again its not like the studios don't make money in their accounts today.
I love Ruby Keeler. And her style of tap dancing was buck n wing, a type of tap which was mostly focused on the feet and not so much on the upper body. Some people call it clunky, but that's how it was supposed to be. If you listen to the tap rhythm sounds which Ruby was making, you can hear how talented she was. Ruby was also beautiful, charming, and the sweetest woman, on screen and in real life. She was known as "the girl next door type"
Thanks for the info, I've always been a fan of Miss Keeler.
Her taps were spot-on, very precise. She was wonderful!
Thank you for pointing this out. I've read too many comments on Ruby Keelers videos saying that she 'couldn't sing, couldn't dance, couldn't act well, but she was pretty!' and 'She dances like a man!'-she actually looks like she's working hard when she dances which I think is a refreshing contrast compared to the smoother, traditional dancing for women.
Yes!
Yes this was a style of dancing popular at the time, but which seems odd to us now. If you look at Joan Crawford dancing in the 1920's it's also slightly masculine. When these time periods are replicated for movies or TV there is a tendency to modernize certain things to make them more palatable for today's audience.
Warner Baxter delivers one of the best if not greatest lines ever concerning show business.
I am always amazed and have enjoyed all of Buzby Berkley and Ziegfeld Follies production and the visual effects with such limited equipment compared with today and just love all the talent on screen
Ruby Keeler and Denny Doherty were both from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and both had their California dreams come true.
the nurse at 1:25 smacking that 'baby'--- oh my ! I love this movie!
Good Lord ....some friggin' talent !👍
Little nifties, from the fifties,
Innocent and sweet
Sexy ladies, from the eighties,
Who are indiscreet
They're side by side, they're glorified,
Where the underworld can meet the elite
Naughty, gaudy, bawdy, sporty,
42nd Street!
The big parade goes on for years,
its a rhapsody of laughter and tears,
Naughty, gaudy, bawdy, sporty,
42nd Street!
Come and meet those dancing feet
On the avenue, I'm taking you to,
42nd Street!
Hear the beat of dancing feet,
It's the song I love the melody of,
42nd Street!
Little nifties, from the fifties,
Innocent and sweet
Sexy ladies, from the eighties,
Who are indiscreet
The big parade goes on for years,
its a rhapsody of laughter and tears,
Naughty, gaudy, bawdy, sporty,
42nd Street!
This tune and " putting on the Ritz". Two of the greatest American Broadway tap tunes ever.
Some great Black Bottom Charleston at the start.
Redpilled_Tuber check out Shanghai Lil from ‘33
They cut the " little ole New York" opening lyrics, but I still love it!
I enjoyed this very much! Buck 'n wing and all!😁😉
My fav musical number ever! Love you Ruby!!!
Ruby Keller was so tiny! Though a powerhouse of tap. Very like chorus line.
Love this so much!
Love a good buck-and-wing tap dance!
So beautiful 😊
The first time i saw this, The first thing i thought was “HOW BIG IS THAT STAGE?”
Busby Berkeley was just amazing.
I watched this movie in the 70's and thought it was great. Considering it was so old, it's not bad.
you should've never watched it you were probably born in the late 1950s to 1960s it was never meant for u gen x young hippie disgusting man
Lucille Ball was also in this movie, she was gorgeous!
42nd Street didn't have the huge spectacle of the other Berkeley musicals but it had a great emotional weight that made up for it!
For sheer spectacular, entertainment, foot tapping, humming, smiling entertainment..this gem wins hands down!! When they say.."They don't make it like they used to", they aren't kidding!! It is a must see!!
Imagine some relative today sees there grand mother performing this wonderful act looking back to see her . Magical always remind me of boardwalk empire
Great grandmother!
welcome to the forty thieves! song from Aladdin 3 was definitely inspired from this!
stunningly beautiful
I love this movie!!
My dad was born in this year! My grandpa was 29! Too cool!
Lol the asbestos caught me off guard 😂
Rockin 30's style, brilliant!
Berkeley was a genius 👍
Pretty good audio for the original!
Frankly, the audio isn't as good as it was at other studios such as at Paramount. I wonder what recording equipment WB was using in '33, having ditched the sound-on-disc system 2 years earlier.
@@moldyoldie7888 A friend of mine who trained at Warner Brothers told me that they used the same Variable Density system (Western Electric) that the majority of the Studios used. Their sound got better in the late 30s, and then they switched to RCA in 1940 and remained with them after that.
Frankly, the more minor studios like Universal and Columbia, which were also licensed with Western Electric had better sound than Warners and MGM. It was not so much the recording method, but the talents of the recording engineers and the use of microphones and their placement. There is also something to be said about sound mixes as well.
@@RayPointerChannel Thanks for replying. I tried to find the film(s) where Warners started using the RCA system but gave up. Too many of their films didn't credit either system.
Ruby began as an Irish clog dancer where the entire bottom of the foot hits the floor. That's why she wasnt as light on her feet as other dancers of the period.
John Province thanks! I’m no dancer but it does look like she might be wearing Irish jig type shoes/clogs here, not normal taps like the others- the soles are really thick at the front, and the lacing reminds me of Scottish dancing shoes. Anyway I like it, very musical sound to it and she gets that flapper look dowwwn😎
I'm just looking at her ass! :)
SPECTACULAR
Where the underworld meets the elite.
For all of his “faults”, Busby Berkeley transformed dancing production numbers. Just a few years prior to this film movie musicals were painfully static - Busby knew how to move the bulky cameras and performers, providing spectaculars, which no one ever since has surpassed. …Rowby.
Music written by Harry Warren
Keeler sure put the hoof into hoofer. Her dancing sure sounds better than it looks.
HA I was up on my feet "trying" to tap dance. Then I realized my motel room curtains were open!!
The Singing in the Rain of the 30s
Gee, life was so much more fun back then.
Yeah, right at the bottom of the Depression. But sometimes I wish life was like this, at least now and then.
Which actress pays the Apache dancer who is stabbed during the "42nd Street" number?
I'm not sure, she wasn't an actress in the main part of the film while they were rehearsing and everything, she just had that one role during the "42nd street" number. It's the same with "Footlight parade", "Golddiggers 33", etc., there are people in those musical numbers who didn't play any parts during the rest of those films
@@allenrichards4176 So basically even the extras had to have talent. 😁
What were they on in 1933
Dick Powell appears at 2:40. One of Hollywood's greatest.
Positive classical beats.
these old films make the modern ones look so boring
no swearing bur they still managed to be cool
Clarabell the Clomping Clown! Lead feet and flat singing.
The production and dancing were incredible, and it may have been the most exciting time in human history. I'm especially amazed at the way the female dancers behave. Humans tend to think that they are the most advanced now, but that is not the case. It is said that this period was the most advanced in human history.
Depends what you mean by "advanced." No penicillin or decent prenatal care, male life expectancy in the US was 61. Racism and sexism were everywhere and dictators could and did hide a lot more.
" True Hoofing " ! 💕
Where the underworld
can meet the elite. 😉
@4:25 ...I think the original featured a little doggie in her arms, but I could be mistaken
Tough on the knees! Ouch
Ginger Rogers was in this!?
She was "Anytime Annie" - the only time she said no was when she didn't hear the question. She played Abner Dillon's new girlfriend who convinced Julian Marsh to use Peggy Sawyer/Keeler as the injured star's replacement.
Wow how things have changed. I mean yes we have made progress in areas like gender and race issues but overall it looks like those days were the peak of society.
I thought life was supposed to always get better than the previous generation but like I said overall it looks like we are steadily going down hill.
MY NAME IS RICKKY TARR
that's actually h a w t
In my next life I want to be a chorus girl.
こんなの作れる国に勝てる訳ないのに。
今の日本でもこんなの作れない。
No! my name is RIKKY TARR
Where else can you see an attempted rape and a murder as part of a musical number?
Actually many operas have that sort of stuff.
so did she die after dropping off the balcony or was it a dream?
But on top of everything else she was damn cute .
4:11 the dolly shots in these old films are terrible. It's like they're dragging the camera over gravel.
How did they film the girl falling off the roof scene?
Catching someone from that height is impossible.
No it's not. The roof set she jumped from wasn't that high.
For once, a movie which completely justifies the claims and boasts of its creators in the trailer.
No one ever talks about Dick Powell!?!?
Idc what anybody says
When I listen to this rendition of the song, all I hear is jazz and gospel
It's the blackest main stream picture musical in the pre Hayes code era
It doesn't even sound like she's tap dancing there's no tapping sound. It's just a thump, thump, thump it synced in to coordinate with her foot movement but it's the wrong sound. That's ridiculous.
Am I the only one who's kind of troubled by the woman who just randomly gets raped and murdered as everyone is singing and dancing... ?
The crowd notices and it's part of the whole breadth of the good and bad of the city. It's not an endorsement of such crimes...
@@hudsony777 It is meant to be a depiction of crime, but it's still glamorized and sexualized in a really gross way.
@@alexba1ley It's only a movie and obviously theatrical.
Love it. That's what made these films so damm enjoyable!! They were preposterous but, hey..people were tougher then. They had thicker skin. The movie going audience could seperate reality from make believe then. People knew these films exaggerated to make a point or paint a picture. One of the best musicles ever made on all fronts!!
@@alexba1ley it's a MOVIE!
I defy you to not hum or whistle this tune after you leave RUclips.
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Gold diggers of 1933
Yes, they are all fantastic performers, but so many things "aged like milk" /m. Let's start with the fact that it's New York but almost everyone is yt, it's a jazz and tap number but the only Black performers are street kids who only make a brief appearance, there is a coin-operated "wooden Indian" who is most likely a yt actor in redface, and there is an elaborate (likely uncredited) dance/stunt solo glamorizing rape, suicide, and murder while neighbors and police do nothing. Yes I get that they're trying to show a disinvested neighborhood with high crime, but why not show the woman defending herself and humiliating the assailant? Why not show neighbors helping each other? Why not show people of the many ethnicities who lived there? Why not have Josephine Baker perform the song in a glamorous costume? Oh, right /s. When Ziegfeld cast superstar Baker in the Follies in 1936, critics panned her, restaurants refused to serve her, the show failed, and she went back to France where people treated her as the star she was.
I'm a black American and I say please get over the woke white liberal guilt and enjoy the film! For Gods sake it was made in 1932-33 and we all times were very different back then. My grandmother was 30 when she saw this film during its original release in Los Angeles and always loved it along with her also black friends and relatives. As a matter of fact, past sociaI issues aside, I don't know anybody who doesn't enjoy the great movie classics from the 1930s and 40s. Society and the movie industry have supposedly "progressed" (have relatives who've held excellent positions at W. B. studios) so lets just sometimes forget the toxic modern political correctness and sit back, relax, & enjoy the magnificent stagecraft, fashion, dancing, and acting in these excellent examples of classic American filmmaking.
Do you ever think it might be your own racist sexist mind that is focusing on all that and not the rest of it?
Imponującą muzyka ❤
HA I was up on my feet "trying" to tap dance. Then I realized my motel room curtains were open!!