Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)

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When two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life.  Director: Lloyd Bacon  Writer: Warren Duff, Richard Maibaum, Michael Wallace  Stars: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell

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00:00Ever since the first Gold Diggers production thrilled the world with its music and magnificence,

00:14the word Gold Diggers has set a standard of brilliance unexcelled in the annals of the

00:18screen. Here is a scene from the first of the series, Gold Diggers of Broadway, which started

00:22the world singing tiptoe through the tulips and painting the clouds with sunshine.

00:26In 1933, an up-and-coming young star by the name of Dick Powell joined with Ruby Keillor

00:34to give you Gold Diggers of 1933. With those sensational musical numbers, we're in the

00:38money, My Forgotten Man, and the unforgettable Shadow Waltz. Then came Gold Diggers of 1935,

00:47another star-studded hit with a song that won the Motion Picture Academy Award for the finest

00:52musical number of the year, The Lullaby of Broadway. Now Warner Brothers have mastered entire

00:59production resources, their creative and star talent, into a Gold Diggers that tops the tops,

01:04adding new glory to an already glorified title. With your old friends Dick Powell and Joan Bondell,

01:10the screen's most popular love team. Glenda Farrell and Victor Moore, with Lee Dixon,

01:15a sensational new singing and dancing discovery. Rosalind Marquis and Irene Ware, and the most

01:20dazzling collection of gold-digging heart-stealers that ever graced a screen. It opens a new avenue

01:25of entertainment in the grandest, gayest, greatest of all the great gold-diggers' pictures.

01:30Let the heavens crash, zoom and swirl. Let it flash, boy meets girl. Speaking of the weather,

01:52good old weather, good old weather, ain't it lovely weather, and incidentally I love you.

02:04Help! Help! Not so loud. Help! Help! Come on, Rossi!

02:10If I kiss you, would you call Andy? Not unless you want to kiss him, too.

02:16That's for me. That's for you.

02:22How, uh, how much are the cake? Five dollars. Six for twenty-five.

02:27I'll take six.

02:32Now then.

02:38Oh.

02:39What's the matter?

02:41Oh, I've never been kissed like that in all my life.

02:44Well.

02:52Let's put our heads together.

02:57Is it love or is it weather?

03:03Oh, how are we to know so soon?

03:08With so much April and with so much moon.

03:13It's the root of all evil, of strife and upheaval.

03:26But I'm certain, honey, that life could be sunny

03:30with plenty of money and you.

03:33It's the root of all evil, of strife and upheaval.

03:34Oh, God.

03:34For all the Munich fears, thing to be done.

03:35Oh, my God.

03:36We'll see you as as soon as soon as life is around us.

03:38But, of course, I've never been today.

03:38Future of our gaz okay to go and down and be well.

03:40So much oil has like, I think, help him.

03:44Yeah.

03:45What drum are you?

03:46That's sweet.

03:46Oh, my God.

03:48You know good.

03:49I've never been the best.

03:53Yeah.

03:55Oh, my God.

03:58Herods, that's a great Job.

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