Gold Diggers of Broadway is a 1929 American sound pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Winnie Lightner and Nick Lucas. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film is t
Theatrical release poster
Lilyan Tashman in pearl-drop costume for "Song of the Gold Diggers"
Finale; note the early use of color in the film
Still of "Song of the Gold Diggers"
A lost film is a movie in which the original negative and all copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive. Films can be wholly or partially lost for a nu
Gold Diggers of Broadway
…flapper era, giving a glimpse of a world about to be changed by the Great Depression. Because Gold Diggers of Broadway has been considered a partially lost film since the 1970s, the loose remake, Gold Diggers of 1933, is the most frequently seen version of the story. An audience watches a lavish Broadway revue…
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