She Couldn't Say No (1930 film)
She Couldn't Say No is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama which stars Winnie Lightner, fresh from her success in "Gold Diggers of Broadway" (1929).
It was adapted from a play by Benjamin M. Kaye.
An aspiring singer ends up in a love triangle with a gangster and a socialite.
Roy Del Ruth
Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893, Delaware – April 27, 1961) was an American film director.
Gold Diggers of 1937
Gold Diggers of 1937 is a Warner Bros. movie musical directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley.
The film stars Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, who were married at the time, with Glenda Farrell and Victor Moore.
The film features songs by the teams of Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, Harry Warren and Al Dubin.
It was based on the play" Sweet Mystery of Life" by Richard Maibaum, Michael Wallach and George Haight, which ran briefly on Broadway in 1935.
Warren Duff wrote the screenplay with the assistance of Tom Warren, who was billed as" Screenplay constructor".
This is the fifth movie in Warner Bros.' series of" Gold Digger" films, following the now lost films" The Gold Diggers"( 1923) and" Gold Diggers of Broadway"( 1929), as well as a remake of the earlier film" Gold Diggers of 1933"( which was the first to feature Busby Berkeley's extravagant production numbers) and" Gold Diggers of 1935".
The film was followed by" Gold Diggers in Paris"( 1938).
Ray Broadway
Ray Broadway( born 26 January 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League( VFL).
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (film)
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine is the title of a Technicolor musical film released in 1951, directed by David Butler and starring Dennis Morgan and Virginia Mayo( singing voice was dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams).
The film is a musical adaptation of the 1919 play" The Gold Diggers" by Avery Hopwood.
It is the fourth film adaptation of the play, after" The Gold Diggers"( 1923)," Gold Diggers of Broadway"( 1929) and" Gold Diggers of 1933"( 1933).
The film features two songs from" Gold Diggers of Broadway": the title song and" Tiptoe Through the Tulips"; as well as a song from" Gold Diggers of 1933 We're in the Money".
Gold Diggers of Broadway
Gold Diggers of Broadway is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Winnie Lightner and Nick Lucas.
Distributed by Warner Bros., the film is the second two-color Technicolor all-talking feature-length film (after "On with the Show!", also released that year by Warner Bros).
"Gold Diggers of Broadway" was also the third film released by Warner Bros. to be shot in color; the first was a black-and-white, part-color musical, "The Desert Song" (1929).
"Gold Diggers of Broadway" became a box office sensation, making Winnie Lightner a worldwide star and boosting guitarist crooner Nick Lucas to further fame as he sang two songs that became 20th-century standards: "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine."
Based on the 1919 play "The Gold Diggers" – which was also turned into a silent film of the same name in 1923 — now lost, "Gold Diggers of Broadway" utilized Technicolor, showgirls, and sound as its main selling points.
It earned a domestic gross of $3.5 million, extending to over $5 million worldwide (approximately $ today).
The original production cost was approximately $500,000.
It was chosen as one of the ten best films of 1929 by "Film Daily".
As with many early Technicolor films, no complete print survives, although the last twenty minutes do, but are missing a bridging sequence and the last minute of the film.
Contemporary reviews, the soundtrack and the surviving footage suggest that the film was a fast-moving comedy which was enhanced by Technicolor and a set of lively and popular songs.
It encapsulates the spirit of the flapper era, giving us a glimpse of a world about to be changed by the Great Depression.
Because the film is considered a partially lost film since 1970s, the loose remake, "Gold Diggers of 1933", is the most frequently seen version of the story.
The Gold Diggers (1923 film)
The Gold Diggers is a lost Warner Bros. silent comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont with screenplay by Grant Carpenter based on the play" The Gold Diggers" by Avery Hopwood which ran for 282 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920.
Both the play and the film were produced by David Belasco.
The film stars Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing, and Louise Fazenda.
It was also the( uncredited) film debut of Louise Beavers.
The story of" The Gold Diggers" was filmed again as a talkie in 1929 as" Gold Diggers of Broadway", which is now lost, and also in 1933 as" Gold Diggers of 1933", with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley.
Three other sequels followed:" Gold Diggers of 1935"( 1935)," Gold Diggers of 1937"( 1936), and" Gold Diggers in Paris"( 1938).
Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers of 1933 is a pre-Code Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren( music) and Al Dubin( lyrics), staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
It stars Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell, and features Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers.
The story is based on the play" The Gold Diggers" by Avery Hopwood, which ran for 282 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920.
The play was made into a silent film in 1923 by David Belasco, the producer of the Broadway play, as" The Gold Diggers", starring Hope Hampton and Wyndham Standing, and again as a talkie in 1929, directed by Roy Del Ruth.
That film," Gold Diggers of Broadway", which starred Nancy Welford and Conway Tearle, was the biggest box office hit of that year, and" Gold Diggers of 1933" was one of the top- grossing films of 1933.
This version of Hopwood's play was written by James Seymour and Erwin S. Gelsey, with additional dialogue by David Boehm and Ben Markson.
In 2003," Gold Diggers of 1933" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Nancy Welford
Nancy Welford( May 31, 1904 September 30, 1991) was an American actress in the early talkie era.
The daughter of actress Ada Loftus and actor Dallas Welford, she was born in England and came to the United States when she was six years old.
Welford's stage debut came as a member of the ensemble for" Mimic World".
As early as 1921, she was active in vaudeville.
In 1923, a caption of a photograph in the" New York Daily News" described her as the prima donna of a musical comedy and noted," She has come up from the chorus and come to stay."
She next joined the Gallagher and Shean duo in their performances.
In 1926, Welford starred in" Nancy", a musical for which she was the inspiration.
She acted in five films between 1929 and 1933.
She is probably today mostly known for starring in the 1929 Warner Brothers musical" Gold Diggers of Broadway", which was the second all color- all talking feature ever made.
Today," Gold Diggers of Broadway" is a lost film with only 2 surviving reels.
On October 24, 1924, Welford married film director F. Heath Cobb in Cleveland, Ohio.
Her parents learned of the marriage about a month later, prompting her father to say," I do n't believe it", and putting her mother under a doctor's care at her home.
Welford died in San Francisco, California.
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".

Question: Where was the director of film Gold Diggers Of Broadway born?
Answer: Delaware