During the Great Depression, Hollywood did its best to distract the movie going public from the dark days of economic gloom with upbeat, escapist fare. Busby Berkeley, a master illusionist, was a wizard at staging spectacular musical numbers that transported viewers to a glitzy never-never land.

We're in the money, indeed! Aspiring Broadway chorines (Ginger Rogers, Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell) do what they must to get on with the show, while Dick Powell croons the tunes.


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