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- 1933
- Passed
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 29 m
- 1933
- Passed
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 29 m
Summary A director puts on what may be his last Broadway show and, at the last moment, a naive newcomer has to replace the star.
Directed By: Lloyd Bacon
Written By: Rian James, James Seymour, Bradford Ropes, Whitney Bolton
- 1933
- Passed
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 29 m
- 1933
- Passed
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 29 m
42nd Street
83
6.5
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Summary A director puts on what may be his last Broadway show and, at the last moment, a naive newcomer has to replace the star.
Directed By: Lloyd Bacon
Written By: Rian James, James Seymour, Bradford Ropes, Whitney Bolton
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
83
89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
83
89% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
11% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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42nd Street is the quintessential '30s backstage song and dance movie-and one of the most influential and much-copied movie musicals ever. [09 Mar 2007, p.C6]
A movie that could only have been produced by the 1930s studio system. Absolutely spectacular.
Everything about the production rings true. It's as authentic to the initiate as the novitiate.
The liveliest and one of the most tuneful screen musical comedies that has come out of Hollywood.
This may be the definitive Busby Berkeley-choreographed musical simply because the entire movie revels in the sort of things that Berkeley’s elaborate dance numbers revel in: innuendo, flirtations and flesh.
Reviving the musical's fortunes in one fell swoop, Bacon and Busby Berkeley's backstage saga set the benchmark for the putting-on-a-show subgenre not by means of plot (a thin and hackneyed affair about a young understudy finding stardom when she covers for the temperamental diva) but through sassy songs and dialogue and dazzling mise-en-scène.
This 1933 film is the best known of the Warner Brothers Depression-era musicals, though it doesn't compare in dash and extravagance to later entries in the cycle.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.5
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.5
75% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
13% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
13% Negative
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
