As a movie buff, I always stand and salute whenever any of
the “Gold Diggers” movies of the 1930s come on the air. I DVR them and play
them over and over again.
This
is from the first (and best) of them: “Gold Diggers of 1933.” It opens with a cheerful song – “We’re
In The Money,” a renunciation of the Depression – and ends with a very
downbeat musical number, “Remember
My Forgotten Man,” very sad indeed.
Not your usual movie.
Dick
Powell, Ruby
Keeler, Ginger
Rogers, and Joan
Blondell are featured, as well as some names that aren’t so well remembered:
Warren William,
Guy Kibbee, Aline MacMahon, Ned Sparks.
For me, one of the most astonishing things in this excellent
movie is in the first sequence: Ginger Rogers singing “We’re In The Money” in
Pig Latin.
Watch and be amazed.
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