Word: ziegfeldian
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...current revival of cinemas with music, Warner Brothers, who claim that they started the cycle with 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933, favor backstage romances, staged with super-Ziegfeldian extravagance. Samuel Goldwyn surrounds Eddie Cantor with girls and animals. Universal, sceptical of the new vogue, was last week completing a cheap ($100,000) cinemusicomedy, partly financed by two Manhattan shoestring producers and produced at Paramount's Long Island lot, which has been disused for two years...
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