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* SeductionLyric: When Peggy turns down Billy's initial request for a date, he serenades her with the song "Young and Healthy":
-->''I'm young and healthy,\\
and you've got charms;\\
it would really be a sin\\
not to have you in\\
my arms.\\
I'm young and healthy,\\
and so are you\\
when the moon is in the sky\\
tell me what am I to do?''

"Young and Healthy" also serves as something of an IAmSong for Billy, subtly setting him up in contrast to Julian, who is neither.

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* LargeHam: Warner Baxter, who plays Julian Bond, gnaws on scenery from beginning to end.

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* LargeHam: Warner Baxter, who plays Julian Bond, Marsh, gnaws on scenery from beginning to end.



* MaleGaze: Abner the producer and his flunkies ogle the girls that Bond is auditioning for the chorus. Lampshaded later in the film, when Abner and the flunkies are at another rehearsal, and he says that after three weeks of watching he doesn't care anymore.

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* MaleGaze: Abner the producer and his flunkies ogle the girls that Bond Marsh is auditioning for the chorus. Lampshaded later in the film, when Abner and the flunkies are at another rehearsal, and he says that after three weeks of watching he doesn't care anymore.


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* GeniusBonus: Peggy introduces herself to Julian by saying "I'm from Allentown, Pennsylvania." A few moments later, when Julian realizes that she bumped into him earlier he asks "aren't you the Mack truck that tried to run me down this morning?" Mack trucks were manufactured in Allentown,PA from 1905 through the 1950s, and the company headquarters were there.
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* TheAce: When it comes to show performances, Peggy only needs mild coaching to sing, dance, and act very well onstage.
* AintTooProudToBeg: The ''entire show cast'' comes to the train station to beg Peggy to return to the show. It's only when they all serenade her that she gives in.
* AllPartOfTheShow: A thief comes on during the performance, dancing with everyone, and steals their jewelry. He then gets shot, much to Peggy's upset, but the show isn't interrupted.
* HeroicBSOD: Peggy after she gets fired from the show prepares to head back to Allentown. When Julian comes to apologize, Peggy is convinced that he's come to berate her more and won't listen at first.
* MethodActing: When Peggy acts stiffly during rehearsal, Julian kisses her to show her what it's like to be in the arms of someone you love. After that, she nails the part. Much later, he gives her a kiss in the dressing room to reveal it was NotAnAct.
* SecurityBlanket: Peggy's lucky scarf. She wears it to every rehearsal and performance. Julian takes it away before she goes up onstage for real.
* TenMinuteRetirement: After getting fired, Peggy sadly prepares to return to Allentown and give up her dreams of being a dancer. Julian and the ensemble convince her to return, with Julian apologizing for blaming her.
* WhyCantIHateYou: Dorothy Brock admits this at the end to Peggy. She says she can't hate someone who is as talented as Peggy is and gives her heart to the show. It does help that Dorothy realizes that Pat really loves her and they just got married.
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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars Creator/DickPowell as Billy Lawlor, and Ruby Keeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director. Creator/GingerRogers appears in her StarMakingRole as Annie, one of the chorus girls.

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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars Creator/DickPowell as Billy Lawlor, and Ruby Keeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter Creator/WarnerBaxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director. Creator/GingerRogers appears in her StarMakingRole as Annie, one of the chorus girls.
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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars Creator/DickPowell as Billy Lawlor, and Creator/RubyKeeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director. Creator/GingerRogers appears in her StarMakingRole as Annie, one of the chorus girls.

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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars Creator/DickPowell as Billy Lawlor, and Creator/RubyKeeler Ruby Keeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director. Creator/GingerRogers appears in her StarMakingRole as Annie, one of the chorus girls.

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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars Creator/DickPowell as Billy Lawlor, and RubyKeeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director. Creator/GingerRogers appears in her StarMakingRole as Annie, one of the chorus girls.

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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars Creator/DickPowell as Billy Lawlor, and RubyKeeler Creator/RubyKeeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director. Creator/GingerRogers appears in her StarMakingRole as Annie, one of the chorus girls.



Features tons of bizarre Creator/BusbyBerkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on...well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1933'', ''Film/FootlightParade'', and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.

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Features tons of bizarre Creator/BusbyBerkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on... well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1933'', ''Film/FootlightParade'', and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.



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* DivorceInReno: Alluded to in these lines from the song "Shuffle off to Buffalo".
-->Matrimony is baloney,
-->She'll be wanting alimony in a year or so;
-->Still they go and shuffle, shuffle off to Buffalo.
-->When she knows as much as we know
-->She'll be on her way to Reno while he still has dough
-->She'll give him the shuffle, when they're back from Buffalo.

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* DivorceInReno: Alluded to in these lines from the song "Shuffle off to Buffalo".
-->Matrimony
Buffalo":
-->''Matrimony
is baloney,
-->She'll
baloney,\\
She'll
be wanting alimony in a year or so;
-->Still
so;\\
Still
they go and shuffle, shuffle off to Buffalo.
-->When
Buffalo.\\
When
she knows as much as we know
-->She'll
know\\
She'll
be on her way to Reno while he still has dough
-->She'll
dough\\
She'll
give him the shuffle, when they're back from Buffalo.''



* FunnyBackgroundEvent / [[{{Irony}} Dramatic Irony]]: Peggy lets Patrick Denning stay in her room after Denning gets beat up by a couple of {{Mooks}}. The prudish landlady notices and demands that Denning leave immediately, saying "After running a rooming house for 19 years, there's nothing I don't know." As those words are escaping her lips, a man is visible sneaking out of another girl's room.

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent / [[{{Irony}} Dramatic Irony]]: FunnyBackgroundEvent: Peggy lets Patrick Denning stay in her room after Denning gets beat up by a couple of {{Mooks}}. The prudish landlady notices and demands that Denning leave immediately, saying saying, "After running a rooming house for 19 years, there's nothing I don't know." As those words are escaping her lips, a man is visible sneaking out of another girl's room.



** One of the lines in "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" is "I just wanted someone to be gay with".
** If the lyrics to "Shuffling off to Buffalo" are any indication, "panties" used to be something that men wore.

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** One of the lines in "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" is "I just wanted someone to be gay with".
with."
** If the lyrics to "Shuffling "Shuffle off to Buffalo" are any indication, "panties" used to be something that men wore.



* LoveIsADrug: "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me"

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* LoveIsADrug: "You're Getting To to Be A a Habit With with Me"



* ReallyGetsAround: "Anytime Annie". She becomes Abner the producer's new lady friend after his former lady friend leaves to marry her old lover.
--> "She only said no once, and then she didn't hear the question."
* PrettyInMink: The "Young and Healthy" number has the ladies dressed in various outfits trimmed with white fox fur.

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* ReallyGetsAround: "Anytime Annie". Annie." She becomes Abner the producer's new lady friend after his former lady friend leaves to marry her old lover.
--> "She -->'''Chorus Girl:''' She only said no once, and then she didn't hear the question."
question.
* PrettyInMink: PrettyInMink:
**
The "Young and Healthy" number has the ladies dressed in various outfits trimmed with white fox fur.



* ScreenToStageAdaptation: Received the Broadway treatment in 1980 and proceeded to become a Tony award winning smash hit. Also fleshed out more of the plot by adding an antagonist named Dorothy Brock and a few other characters.

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* ScreenToStageAdaptation: Received the Broadway treatment in 1980 and proceeded to become a Tony award winning Tony-award-winning smash hit. Also fleshed out more of the plot by adding an antagonist named Dorothy Brock and a few other characters.
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* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: "Young and Healthy" (actually all the numbers are Creator/BusbyBerkley numbers, but this one is the most elaborate).

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* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: "Young and Healthy" (actually all the numbers are Creator/BusbyBerkley numbers, but this one is the most elaborate).elaborate number in the film, really showing off Berkeley's style.



* PimpedOutDress: Or technically a pimped out skirt, wrap, and fur muff. Her torso [[BareYourMidriff was bare save for the wrap]].

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* PimpedOutDress: Or technically a pimped out skirt, wrap, The lady sung to in "Young and fur muff. Her torso [[BareYourMidriff was bare save for the wrap]].Healthy" is wearing a dress trimmed with fur.
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** Averted in some stage productions, since this song takes place ''right'' after the opening number, thus making quick changes almost nigh-impossible unless you've got mad skills in changing in and out of your costumes.
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* ScreenToStageAdaptation: Received the Broadway treatment in 1980 and proceeded to become a Tony award winning smash hit.

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* ScreenToStageAdaptation: Received the Broadway treatment in 1980 and proceeded to become a Tony award winning smash hit. Also fleshed out more of the plot by adding an antagonist named Dorothy Brock and a few other characters.
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->''Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!''

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->''Sawyer, ->''"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!''
star!"''



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->''Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!''


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Features tons of bizarre Creator/BusbyBerkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on...well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1933'', ''FootlightParade'', and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.

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Features tons of bizarre Creator/BusbyBerkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on...well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1933'', ''FootlightParade'', ''Film/FootlightParade'', and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.
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* PrettyInMink (bordering on NakedInMink for the outfits in some of the numbers)

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* PrettyInMink (bordering on NakedInMink for PrettyInMink: The "Young and Healthy" number has the ladies dressed in various outfits in some of the numbers)trimmed with white fox fur.
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* TightsUnderShorts: Peggy wears this for her tap dance solo during the eponymous musical number at the climax.
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* DivorceInReno: Alluded to in these lines from the song "Shuffle off to Buffalo".
-->Matrimony is baloney,
-->She'll be wanting alimony in a year or so;
-->Still they go and shuffle, shuffle off to Buffalo.
-->When she knows as much as we know
-->She'll be on her way to Reno while he still has dough
-->She'll give him the shuffle, when they're back from Buffalo.
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Features tons of bizarre Creator/BusbyBerkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on...well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for ''{{Gold Diggers of 1933}}'', ''FootlightParade'', and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.

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Features tons of bizarre Creator/BusbyBerkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on...well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for ''{{Gold Diggers of 1933}}'', ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1933'', ''FootlightParade'', and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent / [[{{Irony}} Dramatic Irony]]: Dorothy lets Patrick Denning stay in her room after Denning gets beat up by a couple of {{Mooks}}. The prudish landlady notices and demands that Denning leave immediately, saying "After running a rooming house for 19 years, there's nothing I don't know." As those words are escaping her lips, a man is visible sneaking out of another girl's room.

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent / [[{{Irony}} Dramatic Irony]]: Dorothy Peggy lets Patrick Denning stay in her room after Denning gets beat up by a couple of {{Mooks}}. The prudish landlady notices and demands that Denning leave immediately, saying "After running a rooming house for 19 years, there's nothing I don't know." As those words are escaping her lips, a man is visible sneaking out of another girl's room.
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* BadBadActing: Keeler as Pat when Bond is rehearsing her for the lead part.

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* BadBadActing: Keeler as Pat Peggy when Bond Marsh is rehearsing her for the lead part.

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Features tons of bizarre BusbyBerkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on...well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for ''{{Gold Diggers of 1933}}'', ''FootlightParade'', and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.

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Features tons of bizarre BusbyBerkeley Creator/BusbyBerkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on...well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for ''{{Gold Diggers of 1933}}'', ''FootlightParade'', and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.



* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: "Young and Healthy" (actually all the numbers are Busby Berkley numbers, but this one is the most elaborate).

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* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: "Young and Healthy" (actually all the numbers are Busby Berkley Creator/BusbyBerkley numbers, but this one is the most elaborate).
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* UnbuiltTrope: Julian Marsh is the ur-SecretlyDying show director who stays with the job even though it is killing him. Except that the producers know about it, but go on with the show because they need him, at least one major reason he's doing the show is he needs the money and he doesn't die at the end, though it's hard not to get the feeling that there's a part of him that wishes he did.
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* VideoCredits: At the beginning.

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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars Creator/DickPowell as Billy Lawlor, and RubyKeeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director.

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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars Creator/DickPowell as Billy Lawlor, and RubyKeeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director. \n Creator/GingerRogers appears in her StarMakingRole as Annie, one of the chorus girls.



* ReallyGetsAround: "Anytime Annie", played by Ginger Rogers in her StarMakingRole.

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* ReallyGetsAround: "Anytime Annie", played by Ginger Rogers in Annie". She becomes Abner the producer's new lady friend after his former lady friend leaves to marry her StarMakingRole.old lover.

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* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: "Young and Healthy"

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* BadBadActing: Keeler as Pat when Bond is rehearsing her for the lead part.
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: "Young and Healthy"Healthy" (actually all the numbers are Busby Berkley numbers, but this one is the most elaborate).



* {{Fanservice}}: Lots and lots of focus on scantily-clad chorus girls.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent / [[{{Irony}} Dramatic Irony]]: Dorothy lets Patrick Denning stay in her room after Denning gets beat up by a couple of {{Mooks}}. The prudish landlady notices and demands that Denning leave immediately, saying "After running a rooming house for 19 years, there's nothing I don't know." As those words are escaping her lips, a man is visible sneaking out of another girl's room.
* HaveAGayOldTime:
** One of the lines in "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" is "I just wanted someone to be gay with".
** If the lyrics to "Shuffling off to Buffalo" are any indication, "panties" used to be something that men wore.
* HighClassGlass: A fairly rare female example. Ann wears a glass and affects a ridiculous accent in an effort to appear fancy.



* LargeHam: Warner Baxter, who plays Julian Bond, gnaws on scenery from beginning to end.



* MaleGaze: Abner the producer and his flunkies ogle the girls that Bond is auditioning for the chorus. Lampshaded later in the film, when Abner and the flunkies are at another rehearsal, and he says that after three weeks of watching he doesn't care anymore.
* TheMusicalMusical: One of the Trope Makers.



* ReallyGetsAround: "Anytime Annie", played by Ginger Rogers in her StarMakingRole.
--> "She only said no once, and then she didn't hear the question."



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* {{Workaholic}}: Julian Marsh

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ShowWithinAShow: "Pretty Lady" the stage show.
* TitleDrop: Besides all the street signs, it's the title of the last musical number.
* {{Workaholic}}: Julian MarshMarsh doesn't appear to have anything else in his life other than the theater.
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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars DickPowell as Billy Lawlor, and RubyKeeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director.

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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars DickPowell Creator/DickPowell as Billy Lawlor, and RubyKeeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director.
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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars Dick Powell as Billy Lawlor, and Ruby Keeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director.

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A 1933 Warner Bros. musical with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It stars Dick Powell DickPowell as Billy Lawlor, and Ruby Keeler RubyKeeler as Peggy Sawyer, a young actress struggling to make it big on Broadway. Also features Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, the show's stressed-out director.



Features tons of bizarre Busby Berkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on...well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for ''{{Gold Diggers of 1933}}'', ''FootlightParade'', and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.

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Features tons of bizarre Busby Berkeley BusbyBerkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on...well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for ''{{Gold Diggers of 1933}}'', ''FootlightParade'', and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.
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* BusbyBerkeleyNumber

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* BusbyBerkeleyNumberBusbyBerkeleyNumber: "Young and Healthy"
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Features tons of bizarre Busby Berkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on...well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for "{{Gold Diggers of 1933}}", "FootlightParade", and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.

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Features tons of bizarre Busby Berkeley choreography, as well as a number of numbers that would literally be impossible to stage on...well, an actual stage. This set the precedent for "{{Gold ''{{Gold Diggers of 1933}}", "FootlightParade", 1933}}'', ''FootlightParade'', and the other Warner musicals that immediately followed, made even more obvious by the fact that they all contained many of the same actors reprising similar roles.
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One of the earlier "show-within-a-show" movie musicals, it still holds up very well by today's standards.

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One of the earlier [[TheMusicalMusical "show-within-a-show" movie musicals, musicals]], it still holds up very well by today's standards.



* ShowWithinAShow

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* ShowWithinAShowShowWithinAShow[=/=]TheMusicalMusical

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