42nd Street (film)

42nd Street is a 1933 musical movie, set on the famous Manhattan street of that name, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The script was written by Rian James and James Seymour, from the novel by Bradford Ropes. The film was directed by Lloyd Bacon.

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1933 - Musical - Movie - Academy Award for Best Picture - Lloyd Bacon

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The film is a fast-paced, backstage movie musical, one that changed the film musical forever and was so financially successful that it saved Warner Bros. studios from bankruptcy. Many decades later, in 1980, it was made into a hit stage musical by the same name.

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Warner Bros. - Bankruptcy - 1980 - Stage musical

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