42nd Street (1933) | |
| Director(s) | Lloyd Bacon |
| Producer(s) | Darryl F. Zanuck (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Musical, Romance |
| Top Topics | Pre-Code Cinema |
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42nd Street Overview:
42nd Street (1933) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
42nd Street was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1998.
Academy Awards 1932/33 --- Ceremony Number 6 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Picture | Warner Bros. | Nominated |
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Those dancing feet… ’42nd Street’ (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
By Virginie Pronovost on Jun 16, 2024 From The Wonderful World of Cinema” Jones and Barry are doing a show! “ ” You’re telling me? “ When I first saw 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933), its appeal didn’t quite strike me, and, aside from the final musical number, it left me indifferent. I remember renting the film at Montreal’s Nat... Read full article
Silver Screen Standards: Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933)
By Jennifer Garlen on Apr 11, 2023 From Classic Movie Hub BlogSilver Screen Standards: Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933) Every time I watch 42nd Street (1933) I fall in love with Ruby Keeler all over again. Just like Peggy Sawyer, the character she plays in the movie, Keeler was a bright newcomer getting her big break; although she had been dancing on stage... Read full article
Silver Screen Standards: Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933)
By Jennifer Garlen on Apr 11, 2023 From Classic Movie Hub BlogSilver Screen Standards: Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933) Every time I watch 42nd Street (1933) I fall in love with Ruby Keeler all over again. Just like Peggy Sawyer, the character she plays in the movie, Keeler was a bright newcomer getting her big break; although she had been dancing on stage... Read full article
THE UMPTEENTH BLOGATION: 42nd Street, 1933
on Jan 18, 2022 From Caftan WomanTheresa, the CineMaven herself is hosting The Umpteenth Blogathon on January 18th. A tribute to those movies which have an addictive hold on our moving pictures loving souls. Every fan has many such films and HERE we get to gush about one of them. My selection is the energetic, music-filled, cynical... Read full article
42nd Street (1933)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 24, 2019 From 4 Star Films“Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster but you’ve got to come back a star!” – Warner Baxter to Ruby Keeler 42nd Street essentially feels like hallowed ground even today because it single-handedly gave an entire generation of films plentiful ammunition for tropes while ju... Read full article
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Quotes from 42nd Street
Julian Marsh: Sawyer, you listen to me, and you listen hard. Two hundred people, two hundred jobs, two hundred thousand dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It's the lives of all these people who've worked with you. You've got to go on, and you've got to give and give and give. They've got to like you. Got to. Do you understand? You can't fall down. You can't because your future's in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right, now I'm through, but you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and Sawyer, you're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star!
Dorothy Brock: Now go out there and be so swell that you'll make me hate you!
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Facts about 42nd Street
- Warren William or Richard Barthelmess instead of Warner Baxter
- Kay Francis or Ruth Chatterton instead of Bebe Daniels
- Loretta Young instead of Ruby Keeler
- Joan Blondell instead of Ginger Rogers
- Glenda Farrell instead of Una Merkel
- Frank McHugh instead of George E. Stone
When it premiered in New York City at the Strand Theatre in March 1933, Variety reported that some of the musical numbers were projected on the enlarged grandeur wide screen.
Illness prevented Mervyn LeRoy from directing, so he handed the reins over to Lloyd Bacon.
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