Gold Diggers Of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935 is an American musical film directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley, and starring Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart and Alice Brady. Winifred Shaw, Hugh Herbert and Glenda Farrell are also featured. The songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film is best known for its famous "Lullaby of Broadway" production number. That song (sung by Shaw) also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
The movie was the fourth in the Gold Diggers series of films, after the now lost silent film The Gold Diggers (1923), the partially lost film Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), and Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933). The first three films, all financially successful, had all been based on the 1919 play The Gold Diggers; Gold Diggers of 1935 was the first one based on a wholly original story. It was followed by Gold Diggers of 1937 and Gold Diggers in Paris.
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== Links to Peel ==
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"Gold Diggers Of 1935" is best known to Peel show listeners because of Winifred Shaw and Dick Powell's rendition of "Lullaby of Broadway", which functions in the movie as a "film within a film" but appeared in edited versions on the United Artists LP The Golden Age Of The Hollywood Musical (1972) and a single which made the lower reaches of the UK charts in 1976.
Existing playlists suggest that Peel didn't play the track until the 1990s, but it is possible that he might have done so in the 1970s, as the LP referred to above was part of a revival of interest in the films of Busby Berkeley, which Peel's producer John Walters, a film buff who liked vintage Hollywood movies, might have alerted him to. If Peel didn't see the film in a London repertory cinema (Berkeley's films were popular with hippy audiences due to the oddly "psychedelic" effects of some of his production numbers), he may well have watched it on television, as he and Walters were in the habit of watching old films together with their spouses. BBC Genome() lists four showings of "Gold Diggers of 1935" on BBC Two between 1972 and 1989, together with two editions of the arts programme Omnibus devoted to Busby Berkeley's work, in 1975 and 1976.
== Plays ==
(Release details not known but likely to be from LP - Golden Age Of The Hollywood Musical United Artists)
*06 June 1992: Winifred Shaw & Dick Powell: Lullabye Of Broadway
*01 October 1993: Winifred Shaw & Dick Powell: Lullabye Of Broadway
*15 October 1993 (BFBS): Winifred Shaw & Dick Powell: Lullaby Of Broadway
*04 February 1999: Winifred Shaw & Dick Powell: Lullabye Of Broadway
*07 August 2001: Winifred Shaw & Dick Powell: Lullabye Of Broadway
== See Also ==
*Film Soundtracks
== Links ==
*Wikipedia
Category:Films