Showing posts with label Busby Berkeley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Busby Berkeley. Show all posts

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Busby Berkeley: In hot?


IN CALIENTE

1935
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Written by Ralph Block, Warren Duff, Jerry Wald, and Julius Epstein

Spoilers: moderate

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Listen, honey, being a Ziegfeld girl is swell, but at most it's only a few years out of a lifetime


ZIEGFELD GIRL

1941
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Written by William Anthony McGuire, Marguerite Roberts, Sonya Levien, and Annalee Whitmore

Spoiler alert: it's easier to predict the ending than in the actual Ziegfeld biopic, but I'll keep it to "moderate"

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Busby Berkeley: Manhattan babies don't sleep tight


GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935

1935
Directed by Busby Berkeley
Written by Robert Lord, Manuel Seff, and Peter Milne

Spoiler alert: moderate

Monday, October 26, 2020

Busby Berkeley: Flying away from Rio


WONDER BAR

1934
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Written by Earl Baldwin (based on the plays by Geza Herczeg, Karl Farkas, and Robert Katscher)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Busby Berkeley: Talking pictures? It's just a fad


FOOTLIGHT PARADE

1933
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Written by Manuel Seff, James Seymour, Robert Lord, and Peter Milne

Spoiler alert: moderate

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Busby Berkeley: Old Man Depression, you are through, you done us wrong


GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933

1933
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Erwin S. Gelsey, James Seymour, Ben Markson, and David Boehm

Spoiler alert: moderate

Saturday, July 4, 2020

Busby Berkeley: After three weeks, to me a leg is just something to stand on


42ND STREET

1933
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Written by Rian James and James Seymour (based on the book by Brandon Ropes)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Busby Berkeley: How?


WHOOPEE!

1930
Directed by Thornton Freeland
Written by William M. Conselman, E.J. Rath, and Robert Hobart Davis (based on the musical play by William Anthony McGuire based on the regular talking play by Owen Davis)

Spoiler alert: high, but it's 90 years old, you don't care