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Director: Lloyd Bacon
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From Time Out Film Guide
Reviving the musical's fortunes in one fell swoop, Bacon and Busby Berkeley's backstage saga set the benchmark for the putting-on-a-show subgenre not by means of plot (a thin and hackneyed affair about a young understudy finding stardom when she covers for the temperamental diva) but through sassy songs and dialogue and dazzling mise-en-scène. A grand cast makes the most of numbers like 'You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me', 'Shuffle Off to Buffalo' and 'Young and Healthy', while Berkeley choreographs chorines and camera with mischievous dexterity.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Producer: Darryl F Zanuck
Cast: Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Bebe Daniels, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, George Brent, Ginger Rogers, Una Merkel full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 89 mins
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