42nd Street

42nd Street is a 1933 Warner Bros. musical film which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The script was written by Rian James and James Seymour, with Whitney Bolton (uncredited), from the novel by Bradford Ropes. The film is a fast-paced, backstage musical and was very financially successful. Many decades later, in 1980, it was made into a hit Broadway stage musical of the same name. In 1998, 42nd Street was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2006 this film ranked #13 on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals. It is 1932, the height of the Depression, and Broadway producers Jones (Robert McWade) and Barry (Ned Sparks) put on Pretty Lady, a musical staring beautiful Dorothy (... full article at wikipedia