Gold Diggers of 1937 1936 N/R, 101 min. Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell, Lee Dixon, Osgood Perkins, Charles D. Brown, Joseph Crehan, William B. Davidson, Olin Howland, Rosalind Marquis, Irene Ware, Charles Halton, Paul Irving, Harry C. Bradley
This is the third–and final–"Gold Diggers" film, and Busby Berkeley, though not in the director's chair for this one, still handled the choreography. This time around, unemployed chorus girls Genevieve Larkin (Glenda Farrell) and Norma Perry (Joan Blondell) are in on a plot to buy insurance from Rosmer Peak (Dick Powell) to insure J.J. Horbart (Victor Moore) in order to make money when he dies. Meanwhile, Horbart's partners lost his money in the stock market, and he has no money to finance his next Broadway show. Now, Genevieve falls in love with Horbart who suffers a breakdown when he learns that he is broke. The only way to restore Horbart's health is to put on the show without financial backing. And the show goes on.
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I Dream Too Much 1935 N/R, 95 min. Genre: Musical
Director: John Cromwell Cast: Lily Pons, Henry Fonda, Eric Blore, Osgood Perkins, Lucien Littlefield, Esther Dale, Lucille Ball, Mischa Auer, Paul Porcasi, Clarence Wilson
Metropolitan Opera diva Lily Pons takes on the role of aspiring opera singer, Annette. She and composer Jonathan (Henry Fonda) marry and go to Paris where they seek their fortunes.
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Scarface 1932 N/R, 93 min. Genre: Drama / Action aka: Scarface, The Shame of the Nation
Director: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft, Boris Karloff, Tully Marshall, Maurice Black, Paul Fix, Vince Barnett, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, Purnell Pratt, Inez Palange, Edwin Maxwell, Henry Armetta
Paul Muni is excellent as Roaring Twenties' gangster Antonio "Tony" Camonte in this film modeled after Al Capone's criminal activities in the world of bootleg gin as he fights to overtake the other mobster leaders in the city
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| 1. Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
2. I Dream Too Much (1935)
3. Scarface (1932) aka: Scarface, The Shame of the Nation
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