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Watch: Gold Diggers of 1935 1935 123movies, Full Movie Online – In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Mrs. Prentiss, who is backing the show wants her daughter Ann to marry the millionaire T. Mosely Thorpe, but Ann falls in love with Dick Curtis, while Dick’s girl friend marries Ann’s brother Humbolt. But the hotel stenographer Betty knows a way to avoid difficulties with old Mrs. Prentiss..
Plot: Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
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For the Love of Money
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935 (Warner Brothers, 1935), directed by Busby Berkeley, is a lavish musical set in New England’s Wentworth Plaza, a summer fashionable hotel, featuring a cross section of people working or staying there, many wanting to make some extra money for themselves, hence the title “Gold Diggers.” In this edition, the “Gold Digging” is done by both men and women, with the exception of the romantic leads. Dick Curtis (Dick Powell), a desk clerk working his way through medical school, is engaged to marry Arline Davis (Dorothy Dare), employed as a the hostess there. Guests at the swank hotel include Ann Prentiss (Gloria Stuart), the daughter of the ultra wealthy but stingy widow Matilda Prentiss (Alice Brady), who wants Ann to marry eccentric middle-aged millionaire, T. Mosley Thorpe (Hugh Herbert), but before Ann will commit herself into a loveless marriage, she wants to go out and enjoy herself first. Mother Prentiss consents to this, but with protection, by hiring Dick as her escort. In the meantime, Arline becomes interested in Humbolt (Frank McHugh), Ann’s girl-chasing brother with four previous marriages. While Mosley gets time away from Ann to write a book about snuff, he is pursued by Betty Hawes (Glenda Farrell), a gold-digging stenographer. More complications ensue when the freeloading Nikolai Nicoleff (Adolphe Menjou), a Russian theatrical producer mooching off the hotel, is asked by the manager, Louis Lamson (Grant Mitchell) to stage a musical show that will not only help pay for his bill, but to help benefit the Charity Milk Fund. Sponsored by Mrs. Prentiss, she wants everything in the show to be “small and cheap.” With all this is set aside, the real entertainment begins with two lavish production numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley.

With the score by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935 opens instrumentally to “I’m Going Shopping With You,” where employees, including bellboys and chambermaids, musically preparing the hotel for the upcoming guests. The song is later introduced by Powell as he escorts Stuart on a shopping spree, charging everything to her mother. This is later followed by the tender love song, “The Words Are In My Heart” sung by Powell to Stuart on the motor boat. For the charity show, the first number is “The Words Are In My Heart” introduced by Powell to Stuart in period clothes, followed by a parade of chorus girls playing the tune while sitting on movable white pianos. An excellent number that needs to be seen to be appreciated. When one thinks Berkeley cannot outdo that piano segment, stay tuned for the 14 minute finale, “The Lullaby of Broadway.” Sung by Winifred Shaw, the big climax of hundreds of dancers in the night club sequence is an instant classic. This segment alone is usually clipped into movie documentaries, especially a segment into public television’s 1971 90-minute presentation of “The Movie-Crazy Years,” a look back into the history of Warner Brothers movies of the 1930s. “The Lullaby of Broadway” went on to win the Academy Award as best song of the year. While “Shopping” and “Words” are underscored throughout the story, with insert of “Tango Del Rio” from WONDER BAR (1934), only “Lullaby of Broadway” gives indication of one being inserted here from another movie or musical short, considering the fact that the song isn’t heard at all until its grand finale, thus saving the best for last.

In closing, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935 is grand scale musical showing that Berkeley handles his production numbers better than the weak plot. Alice Brady’s character can often be annoying while the Warners reliables of Frank McHugh and Hugh Herbert tend to strain a bit for laughs. For character acting, Adolphe Menjou acquires a thick Russian accent to match with his comedic moments opposite Joseph Cawthorne as another heavily accented August Schultz.

Distributed to home video in 1989, and DVD many years later as part of the Busby Berkeley collection, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935 often plays on cable television’s Turner Classic Movies. (***)

A Formula Worn Thin
A tedious yawn of a film that retains nothing of the zing and raciness of its predecessor, “Gold Diggers of 1933.” The Production Code was firmly in place by the time of this film’s release, so the humour is all of the hokey, wocka-wocka variety and gone are the dry one-liners that sounded so cosmopolitan dripping off the lips of the gorgeous dames from the first film. A cast of second-tier stars and character actors go through the motions here, and the “puttin’ on a show” motif seems awfully forced; instead of the make or break world of Broadway, the show here is a charity event hosted by a swanky hotel. Who really cares whether or not the show goes on? The score here is bland too. Of course the movie’s big number is “Lullaby of Broadway,” which accompanies a long fantasy dance number about a New York socialite’s eventual demise from too much partying–doesn’t exactly have the same effect as the searing “Forgotten Man” number used as the finale in ’33. Busby Berkeley directs as well as choreographs this film, and whatever promise is built up in the film’s fluid opening scenes quickly deteriorates. Unfortunately, no one learned any lessons from this, and there was yet another Gold Diggers movie two years later.

Grade: C-

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director Busby Berkeley
Writer Manuel Seff, Peter Milne, Robert Lord
Actors Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length (10 reels), 2,518.25 m (UK)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm