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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gold Diggers of 1935 (Warner) should go far toward verifying the suspicion that Director Busby Berkeley's bizarre cinematic dance routines have lost all but academic interest. His masterpiece this time is a tableau in which a double row of white pianos, at which chorus girls sit waving their hands as though playing waltzes, waver, spin, undulate and finally assemble into a platform on which Gloria Stuart does a tap dance. Cinemaddicts who feel that this represents a perceptible improvement on Berkeley's shadow waltz in Gold Diggers of 1933 are likely also to enjoy the presentation...
...engaged in fleecing a stingy dowager (Alice Brady) who hires them to produce a charity show on a shoestring. Dick Powell, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert and Dorothy Dare appear in their usual capacities, help put the production on a grander scale than anything ever seen outside a Warner sound stage. Trick shot: an unidentified tap dancer's feet photographed from below, through a glass floor...
...evening of March 1, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur left the White House, stepped into his carriage, rolled around to Washington's Willard Hotel. There that New York dandy witnessed the wedding of Colorado's U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor and Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe. Diplomats and Congressmen were present. The beauteous young bride wore a pearl necklace for which the groom had that morning paid a fortune; it had, the guests were told, been part of the jewelry pawned by Queen Isabella to finance Christopher Columbus. The air was loud with...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby Doe") Tabor, 73, relict of Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor, Colorado miner; by freezing to death; in Leadville, Colo...
...Warner Brothers' musical extravaganza "Gold Diggers of 1935" featuring the infectious Dick Powell, and supported by a host of Hollywood's funniest comedians, is a worthy successor to the 1933 and 1934 hits of the same name. It is light, airy, and debonair. Judging from the response of the audience, the picture took...