Saturday, July 9, 2011

Gold Diggers of 1933

Barney Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before
it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills.
Everybody is sitting on the street and due to depression there is no
possibility for the three chorus girls Carol, Trixie and Polly. But
they hear rumors that Hopkins is producing a new show, they invite him
and he promises to give them work - when he found a backer to produce
it. He hears the tunes of the composer next door, Brad Roberts,
Polly's friend. Brad joins them and agrees to back the show. On
opening night he takes over for the juvenile lead, who suffers from
lumbago. Roberts has been very publicity-shy, because he belongs to a
wealthy upper class family from Boston. When his family notices what
he is doing, his brother Lawrence and their attorney Peabody come to
New York, to end his relationship with Polly. But he mistakes Carol
for Polly, who does not correct his mistake. Lawrence decides to
separate Polly from Brad by drawing her love on himself. But soon he
realizes, that he is really in love with that chorus girl.

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