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3	''Gold Diggers of 1935'' is the first ''Gold Digger'' film made after UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode crackdown. The aftermath is neutered and sweetly innocent, for the most part. Gone are the [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] spiciness, making the fluff slightly more obvious. However, it's the first film completely directed by Creator/BusbyBerkeley.
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5	Young Dick Curtis (Creator/DickPowell) is a clerk at Wentworth Plaza, the hotel of the rich during summer, trying to get money to finish law school and marry his sweetheart, Alrine Davis (Dorothy Dare). The snooty millionaire Prentiss family arrive with [[TheScrooge Mrs. Prentiss]] (Alice Brady), the worrying penny-pincher, her [[SerialSpouse serial spouse]] son, Humbolt (Frank [=McHugh=]), and her plainly dressed daughter, Ann (Creator/GloriaStuart).
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7	Trouble arises when Mrs. Prentiss asks Dick to escort Ann around the town before she marries insane Mr. T. Mosley Thorpe (Hugh Hubert), a snuff expert and millionaire who has no idea his secretary, Betty Hawes (Glenda Farrell) is swindling him. Unsurprisingly, both Ann and Dick fall in love and have a hard time trying to hide it from Mrs. Prentiss. Meanwhile, Mrs. Prentiss puts on a musical show for charity purposes and must keep it under budget while trying to fight off scheming Russian choreographer, Nicolai Nicoleff (Adolph Menjou).
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9	Wacky hijinks ensue and beautifully choreographed musical numbers take center stage.
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11	!!Tropes associated with ''Gold Diggers of 1935'':
12	* AlliterativeName: Nicolai Nicoleff.
13	* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: Two major ones: “The Lullaby of Broadway” and “The Words Are in My Heart.”
14	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mr. T. Mosley Thorpe is completely unaware of reality.
15	* FunnyForeigner: Nicolai is the misunderstood, frantic artist, who tends not to make sense 100% of the time.
16	* GoldDigger: Alrine decides to go after Humbolt because of his millionaire status.
17	* MoodWhiplash: The end of Lullaby of Broadway has [[spoiler: our protagonist falling down a building.]]
18	* TheScrooge: Mrs. Prentiss. One very telling example is when she gives four bellhops ''one'' quarter to share between them.
19	* SerialSpouse: Humbolt marries anyone that gives him the eye. He tells his mother, who was trying to get some mathematics into his head, that he’s "no good with fractions, but good at ''figures''."
20	* SheCleansUpNicely: Dick accompanies Ann to get herself a makeover and is impressed with the results.
21	* ShoutOut: Betty sings [[Film/GoldDiggersOf1933 "We're in The Money”]] when she gets Thorpe to sign a phoney contract for their “engagement”.
22	* ShowWithinAShow: In tune with Berkeley’s musical style, there’s a show to fundraise money for the milk fund.
23	* VideoCredits: At the beginning, as was the Warner Brothers style of the day.
24	* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: As with all Busby musical numbers, we all know this could not be accomplished on the stage. This stage is even tinier than the other Gold Digger films.

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