January 25, 2011 (XXII:2) Lloyd Bacon, 42ND STREET (1933, 89 min) Directed by Lloyd Bacon Dance Ensembles designed by Busby Berkeley Written by Rian James, James Seymour, Bradford Ropes (novel) Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck Cinematography by Sol Polito Costume Design by Orry-Kelly Music Composed by Harry Warren Lyrics by Al Dubin Warner Baxter...Julian Marsh Bebe Daniels...Dorothy Brock George Brent...Pat Denning Ruby Keeler...Peggy Sawyer Guy Kibbee...Abner Dillon Una Merkel... Lorraine Fleming Ginger Rogers...Ann 'Anytime Annie' Lowell Ned Sparks... Barry Dick Powell... Billy Lawler National Film Registry (1998) choreographer who did not just choreograph the dancing, but also the cameras and the audiences, in a host of grand, outlandish LLOYD BACON (December 4, 1889, San Jose, California – musicals. His sweeping, novel style was his hallmark, with the fine November 15, 1955, Burbank, California) has 130 director credits, set pieces in Gold Diggers of 1933 a fine example. ...Busby always some of which are 1954 She Couldn't Say No, 1953 The French experimented with unusual camera angles and editing to liven up Line, 1953 Walking My Baby Back Home, 1953 The Great Sioux the proceedings. The films tried to go one better than the stage Uprising, 1951 Call Me Mister, 1950 Kill the Umpire, 1950 The musicals by going one bigger, with huge set pieces and opulent Good Humor Man, 1949 It Happens Every Spring, 1948 Give My surroundings. This was where many who arrived in Hollywood Regards to Broadway, 1948 You Were Meant for Me, 1944 The seeking stardom found their dream. The set pieces of many a Sullivans, 1943 Action, the North Atlantic, 1940 Knute Rockne All Berkeley musical would call for a cast of hundreds of dancing girls American, 1939 Espionage Agent, 1937 San Quentin, 1936 Gold in a kaleidoscopic, co-ordinated extravaganza. Gold Diggers of Diggers of 1937, 1935 Devil Dogs of the Air, 1933 Footlight 1933 has some of the most outlandish of these, as does one of the Parade, 1933 Mary Stevens, M.D., 1933 42nd Street, 1932 later remakes, Gold Diggers of 1935 (not to mention Gold Diggers Fireman, Save My Child, 1931 Manhattan Parade, 1931 Gold Dust of 1937).” Before Berkeley, the choreographer or dance director Gertie, 1930 Moby Dick, 1930 A Notorious Affair, 1930 She would design the dances and train the dancers, then the film’s Couldn't Say No, 1927 Brass Knuckles, 1926 Private Izzy Murphy, director would control the actual filming. Berkeley talked producer 1924 Don't Fail, 1922 The Educator, and 1922 The Speeder. He Sam Goldwyn into letting him direct the entire dance sequences. also acted, 74 films, the last of which was 1935 Broadway Not only did he bring his own genius to the dances but he changed Gondolier and the first of which was 1914 His Taking Ways. the way they were filmed—using only one camera (which meant the shots became part of the choreography rather than merely a BUSBY BERKELEY (William Berkeley Enos, 29 November 1895, documentation of it) and doing closeups of the dancers. "Well, Los Angeles—14 March 1976, Palm Springs, California) was we've got all the beautiful girls in the picture, why not let the public arguably the greatest choreographer in film. He invented the camera see them?" he said. Darryl Zanuck at Warner Brothers hired him to as a character in the dance. Scott M. Keir wrote in the 1997-1998 direct the musical segments of 42nd Street 1932, after which his Edinburgh University Film Society program, “Berkeley was a style and position were solidly established and he and his team Bacon—42ND STREET—2 (composer Harry Warren and Road, 1941 Western Union, 1940 Down Argentine Way, 1940 lyricist Al Dubin) got a 7-year Brigham Young, 1940 The Return of Frank James, 1940 Star Dust, contract. Some of Berkeley’s 1940 The Grapes of Wrath, 1939 Swanee River, 1939 Drums Along other films were Billy Rose's the Mohawk, 1939 Hollywood Cavalcade, 1939 The Adventures of Jumbo 1962, Rose Marie 1954, Sherlock Holmes, 1939 Stanley and Livingstone, 1939 Young Mr. Million Dollar Mermaid 1952, Lincoln, 1939 Rose of Washington Square, 1939 The Story of Call Me Mister 1951, Girl Crazy Alexander Graham Bell, 1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939 1943, The Gang's All Here 1943, Jesse James, 1938 Little Miss Broadway, 1938 Rebecca of Lady Be Good 1941, Gold Sunnybrook Farm, 1937 Heidi, 1937 Wake Up and Live, 1937 Wee Diggers in Paris 1938, Stars Willie Winkie, 1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing!, 1936 Banjo on My Over Broadway 1935, Roman Knee, 1936 White Hunter, 1936 Ramona, 1936 White Fang, 1936 Scandals 1933, Footlight Parade Under Two Flag, 1936 A Message to Garcia, 1936 The Prisoner of 1933, Girl Crazy 1932, and Shark Island, 1935 Metropolitan, 1935 Les Misérables, 1934 The Whoopee! 1930. He was also Affairs of Cellini, 1934 The House of Rothschild, 1934 Moulin director of 22 films, among them Rouge, 1933 The Bowery, 1933 42nd Street, 1932 20,000 Years, Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1949, For Me and My Gal (Gene Sing Sing, 1932 Three on a Match, 1932 The Rich Are Always with Kelly’s first film) 1942, Babes in Arms 1939, and They Made Me a Us, 1931 The Public Enemy, 1931 Little Caesar, and 1925 Lady Criminal 1939. The famous neon violin “Shadow Waltz” sequence Windermere's Fan. He also wrote all or a significant part of the in Gold Diggers of 1933 had an afterlife: the song was included in scripts for about 80 films. the 1970s stage version of 42nd Street on Broadway and the violins themselves are on display in the Warner’s Studio museum. Nicole SOL POLITO (November 12, 1892, Palermo, Sicily, Italy – May 23, Armour’s interesting Images article , “The Machine Art of Dziga 1960, Hollywood, California) was cinematographer for 168 films, Vertov and Busby Berkeley,” is on-line at some of which were 1949 Anna Lucasta, 1948 Sorry, Wrong http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue05/features/berkeley- Number, 1947 The Voice of the Turtle, 1946 Cloak and Dagger, vertov.htm. 1945 Rhapsody, Blue, 1945 The Corn Is Green, 1944 Arsenic and Old Lace, 1944 The Adventures of Mark Twain, 1943 This Is the RIAN JAMES (October 3, 1899, Eagle Pass, Texas – April 26, 1953, Army, 1942 Now, Voyager, 1941 Sergeant York, 1940 Santa Fe Newport Beach, California) wrote the screenplay, story or original Trail, 1940 The Sea Hawk, 1940 Virginia City, 1939 Dodge City, dialogue for 42 titles, some of which were 1947 Whispering City, 1938 Angels with Dirty Faces, 1938 Gold Diggers, Paris, 1938 The 1947 The Fortress, 1942 Parachute Nurse, 1942 Not a Ladies' Man, Adventures of Robin Hood, 1937 The Prince and the Pauper, 1936 1942 This Time for Keeps, 1941 Broadway Limited, 1940 The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1936 The Petrified Forest, 1935, Turnabout, 1939 The Gorilla, 1938 Submarine Patrol, 1935 To Caliente, 1935 'G' Men, 1935 The Woman, Red, 1934 Madame Du Beat the Band, 1935 Redheads on Parade, 1934 The White Parade, Barry, 1934 Dames, 1933 Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933 42nd Street, 1934 The Big Shakedown, 1933 Mary Stevens, M.D., 1933 Private 1932 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932 Three on a Match, Detective 62, 1933 42nd Street, 1933 Parachute Jumper, 1932 1932 Union Depot, 1931 Woman Hungry, 1931 The Hot Heiress, Lawyer Man, and 1932 Love Is a Racket. 1930 Madonna of the Streets, 1930 The Girl of the Golden West, 1930 No, No, Nanette, 1929 Seven Footprints to Satan, 1926 Satan JAMES SEYMOUR (April 23, 1895, Boston, Massachusetts – January Town, 1925 The Bad Lands, 1923 The Bad Man, 1919 Should a 29, 1976, London, England) wrote the story or script for 25 films, Woman Tell?, 1916 Fruits of Desire, 1915 The Sins of Society, 1915 among them 1947 The Ghosts of Berkeley Square, 1947 Meet Me at The Butterfly, 1915 M'Liss, and 1914 Rip Van Winkle. Dawn, 1943 The Saint Meets the Tiger, 1943 We'll Meet Again, 1933 Footlight Parade, 1933 Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933 42nd ORRY-KELLY (December 31, 1897, Kiama, New South Wales, Street, 1932 Lawyer Man, 1930 What a Widow!, 1929 Acquitted, Australia – February 27, 1964, Hollywood, California) won three and 1929 Lucky, Love. Academy Awards for Costume Design: 1951 (An American, Paris), 1957 (Les Girls), and 1959 (Some Like It Hot). Orry-Kelly did DARRYL F. ZANUCK (September 5, 1902, Wahoo, Nebraska – costumes for 289 other films, some of which were 1963 Irma la December 22, 1979, Palm Springs, California) produced 191 films, Douce, 1962 Gypsy, 1962 The Chapman Report, 1962 Five Finger among them 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1969 The World of Fashion, Exercise, 1962 Sweet Bird of Youth, 1958 Auntie Mame, 1955 1968 D-Day Revisited, 1962 The Chapman Report, 1962 The Oklahoma!, 1950 Harvey, 1948 For the Love of Mary, 1948 One Longest Day, 1961 Sanctuary, 1958 The Roots of Heaven, 1958 The Touch of Venus, 1947 Mother Wore Tights, 1947 The Shocking Barbarian and the Geisha, 1957 The Sun Also Rises, 1957 Island, Miss Pilgrim, 1945 The Dolly Sisters, 1945 The Corn Is Green, the Sun, 1956 The Man, the Gray Flannel Suit, 1954 The Egyptian, 1944 Arsenic and Old Lace, 1944 Mr. Skeffington, 1944 The 1952 The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952 Viva Zapata!, 1951 David Adventures of Mark Twain, 1943 Watch on the Rhine, 1943 This Is and Bathsheba, 1950 All About Eve, 1950 No Way Out, 1950 Night the Army, 1942 Casablanca, 1942 Now, Voyager, 1942, This Our and the City , 1950 Cheaper by the Dozen, 1949 Twelve O'Clock Life, 1942 Murder, the Big House, 1942 Kings Row, 1942 The Man High, 1949 Pinky, 1949 Thieves' Highway, 1948 The Snake Pit, Who Came to Dinner, 1941 The Maltese Falcon, 1941 The Little 1947 Gentleman's Agreement, 1947 Forever Amber, 1947 Foxes, 1941