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Post by london777 on Mar 20, 2021 20:55:30 GMT
With my days on Earth fast running out, I have decided on one (last?) new experience. It is risky, but what have I got to lose at my age? I want to watch, not only a musical (ugh!) but a musical from the 1930s (double ugh!)
Should I plump for:
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir: Mervyn LeRoy ?
or
42nd Street (1933) dir: Lloyd Bacon ?
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 20, 2021 20:58:55 GMT
Forget them both and watch SWING TIME instead
Fred & Ginger & George Stevens
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So pick yourself up, dust yourself offWatch it and watch it again
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Post by timshelboy on Mar 20, 2021 21:04:52 GMT
Both are good but 42nd STREET has a definite edge - kind of the template for a lot of them. Good luck with your self imposed challenge....I'm sure before long you'll be whistling Rodgers & Hart tunes. strking Fosse poses in the shower and starting Mitzi Gaynor appreciation threads on this very board like most well adjusted posters here do  Only problem is 42ND STREET may well be the finest 30s musical so all the others you watch will be a long slow decline before the inevitable CABARET is usually the musical to recommend to naysayers on basis the naturalastic use of song is less jarring to musicalphobes averse to sailors on leave prancing about in groups, rustic sex pests erecting a barn to music, or positive thinking nuns trilling through Alpine glades. If you find you have a stronger constitution than you fear, My favourites, all of which may well send you screaming into the night. are SWEET CHARITY ON THE TOWN WEST SIDE STORY KISS ME KATE THE BOYFRIEND and LA LA LAND caught that old time musical vibe superbly. |
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 20, 2021 21:16:49 GMT
"42nd Street" is the more well-known classic. AND it has Ginger Rogers in it esp. notable in the "Shuffle Off To Buffalo" number.
And speaking of Ginger...Matt's advice of "Swing Time" is excellent. If not Swing Time then these other Fred & Ginger musicals: "Top Hat" (1935), "Follow The Fleet" (1936), or "Shall We Dance" (1937) - George Gershwin's last major work before his untimely death.
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Post by bess1971s on Mar 21, 2021 19:04:19 GMT
Ginger Rogers is in both movies and as good as 42nd street is, my money is on Gold Diggers of 1933 simply for the joy of watching Aline MacMahon steal every scene scene she's in.
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Post by Isapop on Mar 22, 2021 1:55:24 GMT
Forget them both and watch SWING TIME instead
Fred & Ginger & George Stevens
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So pick yourself up, dust yourself offWatch it and watch it again Yes, this. You'll see some of Astaire's best work, both solo and with Ginger. Listen to Matt.
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 22, 2021 3:20:20 GMT
Stop saying your days are running out, London. You’re not going anywhere. The Musicals will make you young again. It’s the springtime of your life.  |
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Post by london777 on Mar 22, 2021 14:47:12 GMT
Stop saying your days are running out, London. You’re not going anywhere. The Musicals will make you young again. It’s the springtime of your life. You are right of course, jervistetch. You have shamed me. No more grizzling from me. I shall use this choreographic viagra to reinvigorate my life, though I cannot hope to match you as a bon viveur.
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