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42nd Street
Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.
1933 · Directed by Lloyd Bacon · 89 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · 14 frames
Tagline
The Greatest Musical Hit the Screen Has Ever Known!
Crew
- Screenplay: Rian James, James Seymour
- Cinematography: Sol Polito
- Edited by: Thomas Pratt, Frank Ware
- Music: Al Dubin, Harry Warren
- Produced by: Darryl F. Zanuck
Cast
- Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh
- Bebe Daniels as Dorothy Brock
- George Brent as Pat Denning
- Ruby Keeler as Peggy
- Guy Kibbee as Abner Dillon
- Una Merkel as Lorraine Fleming
- Ginger Rogers as Ann
- Ned Sparks as Barry
- Dick Powell as Billy Lawler
- Allen Jenkins as Mac Elroy
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $439,000
- Box office: $2,281,000
- Themes: philadelphia, pennsylvania, musical, stage show, director, dog, rehearsal, broadway, pre-code, fainting, chorus girl
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