A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
Robert Agnew
- Dance Director
- (uncredited)
Loretta Andrews
- Gold Digger
- (uncredited)
Monica Bannister
- Gold Digger
- (uncredited)
Bonnie Bannon
- Gold Digger
- (uncredited)
Joan Barclay
- Gold Digger
- (uncredited)
Billy Barty
- Baby in 'Pettin' in the Park' Number
- (uncredited)
Busby Berkeley
- Call Boy
- (uncredited)
Bonnie Blackwood
- Chorus girl
- (uncredited)
Eric Blore
- Complaining Club Member
- (uncredited)
Audrene Brier
- Gold Digger
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDuring rehearsals of "We're in the Money", Ginger Rogers began goofing off and singing in pig Latin. Studio executive Darryl F. Zanuck overheard her, and suggested she do it for real in the movie.
- GoofsWhen Brad plays piano for Mr. Hopkins, his fingers don't match the sound of the piano.
- Quotes
Trixie Lorraine: "Fanny" is Faneul H. Peabody, just the kind of man I've been looking for, lots of money and no resistance.
- ConnectionsEdited into Busby Berkeley and the Gold Diggers (1969)
- SoundtracksThe Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Played during the opening credits and often in the score
Performed by Ginger Rogers (in English and Pig-Latin) and chorus
Played also as dance music by a band
Featured review
This, the first in the series of Gold Diggers films still in existence, is the best, the sparkiest, the funniest, and the strongest. Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Warren William, Ginger Rogers, and then some ... what a great cast! Wonderful musical numbers with that distinctive Berkeley choreography. A crackling script which still packs a punch now. And, best of all, that wonderful finale 'Forgotten Man', where Great War veterans shuffle through a world that doesn't care while the women left behind remember their happier days ...
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Details
Box office
- Budget
- $433,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $105
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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