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42nd Street

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42nd Street	label	42nd Street
42nd Street	page	FortySecondStreet
42nd Street	comment	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. Ginger Rogers appears in her Star-Making Role as Annie, one of the chorus girls.One of the earlier "show-within-a-show" movie musicals, it still holds up very well by today's standards.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, Footlight Parade, 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.Was adapted into a successful Broadway musical in 1980, with a revival in 2001.
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42nd Street / int_1212a1c0	comment	Love Is a Drug: "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me"
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42nd Street / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
42nd Street / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Songwriters Warren and Dubin show up in a scene being criticized by Julian Marsh after a particularly (intentionally) awful musical number.
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42nd Street / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
42nd Street / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: 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.
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42nd Street / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
42nd Street / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Besides all the street signs, it's the title of the last musical number.
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42nd Street / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
42nd Street / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In the original film, Dorothy Brock is a neutral supporting character, and her injury is a total accident. The musical makes her into a more antagonistic force and Evil Diva who only cares about herself; as such, her injury is caused by Peggy (albeit still by accident), leading Dorothy to furiously demand she be fired.
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42nd Street / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
42nd Street / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Dorothy uses this trope to get her way throughout the production process—since her "sugar daddy" Abner is putting up the cash for the show, she flaunts Julian's rules and makes it clear that if she's unhappy, she'll pull his funding.
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42nd Street / int_2484396e	type	Know-Nothing Know-It-All
42nd Street / int_2484396e	comment	Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Downplayed with Dorothy Brock. She's a genuinely talented actress and singer, but she can't dance at all. The problem is that keeps insisting that she can. The best the creative team can do is give her extremely simple routines and have more talented dancers perform around her to distract the crowd.
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42nd Street / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
42nd Street / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: 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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42nd Street / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
42nd Street / int_2cac89cf	comment	The Ingenue: Peggy is one, of the particularly dewy-eyed and naive variety.
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42nd Street / int_30f1cd6c	type	The Musical Musical
42nd Street / int_30f1cd6c	comment	The Musical Musical: One of the Trope Makers.
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42nd Street / int_316595d6	type	Sensational Staircase Sequence
42nd Street / int_316595d6	comment	Sensational Staircase Sequence: Part of the title song involves a giant staircase with lots of dancers performing on it.
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42nd Street / int_3cf44d4b	type	High-Class Glass
42nd Street / int_3cf44d4b	comment	High-Class Glass: A fairly rare female example. Ann wears a glass and affects a ridiculous accent in an effort to appear fancy.
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42nd Street / int_3e7e7870	type	Seduction Lyric
42nd Street / int_3e7e7870	comment	Seduction Lyric: When Peggy turns down Billy's initial request for a date, he serenades her with the song "Young and Healthy": "Young and Healthy" also serves as something of an "I Am" Song for Billy, subtly setting him up in contrast to Julian, who is neither.
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42nd Street / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
42nd Street / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: Peggy becomes a star, but it's unclear if she and Julian will end up together. They have obvious chemistry, and like each other, but Julian seems unsure if he's overstepping his bounds as a director and authority figure. The play implies that if Julian goes to the kids' cast party, then he'll have chosen Peggy but ends before he can make the decision.
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42nd Street / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
42nd Street / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: The "Young and Healthy" number has the ladies dressed in various outfits trimmed with white fox fur. 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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42nd Street / int_4e4ea654	type	Workaholic
42nd Street / int_4e4ea654	comment	Workaholic: Julian Marsh doesn't appear to have anything else in his life other than the theater.
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42nd Street / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
42nd Street / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: 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.
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42nd Street / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
42nd Street / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The book was full of extraneous characters and tons of subplots (many of a controversial nature), most of which were either changed or cut entirely from the movie. The film was in all likelihood improved by the streamlining of the story, but one can't help but wonder what would have happened had the film been made in a more permissive era. (True, there was no Hays Code yet, but there was no way Julian and Billy being a couple was going to make it to the silver screen in the early 1930s.)
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42nd Street / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
42nd Street / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: By the end of the show, Peggy and Dorothy have formed this dynamic—Dorothy openly admits that she's envious of Peggy, but the two are able to mutually respect each other, with the older woman coaching Peggy on the show's big romance number. The two turn the song into a duet, and they part as frenemies.
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42nd Street / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
42nd Street / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: 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.
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42nd Street / int_687d991e	type	Security Blanket
42nd Street / int_687d991e	comment	Security Blanket: Peggy's lucky scarf. She wears it to every rehearsal and performance. Julian takes it away before she goes up onstage for real.
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42nd Street / int_78e8eba5	type	"I Am" Song
42nd Street / int_78e8eba5	comment	"Young and Healthy" also serves as something of an "I Am" Song for Billy, subtly setting him up in contrast to Julian, who is neither.
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42nd Street / int_7a10d16a	type	Divorce in Reno
42nd Street / int_7a10d16a	comment	Divorce in Reno: Alluded to in these lines from the song "Shuffle Off to Buffalo":
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42nd Street / int_7c34813	type	Why Can't I Hate You?
42nd Street / int_7c34813	comment	Why Can't I Hate You?: 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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42nd Street / int_814356cb	type	White-Dwarf Starlet
42nd Street / int_814356cb	comment	White-Dwarf Starlet: Dorothy Brock is beginning to show her age, and everyone on the creative team knows it—and also knows enough to not mention it at all. It doesn't help that Dorothy, while a talented singer, can't dance to save her life, although she insists she can.
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42nd Street / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
42nd Street / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Warner Baxter, who plays Julian Marsh, gnaws on scenery from beginning to end.
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42nd Street / int_8ee370b6	type	Method Acting
42nd Street / int_8ee370b6	comment	Method Acting: An In-Universe example. 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 Not an Act.
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42nd Street / int_99244825	type	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
42nd Street / int_99244825	comment	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation: 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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42nd Street / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
42nd Street / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: At the beginning.
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42nd Street / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
42nd Street / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Peggy has enough pure, raw talent to instantly pick up whatever dance moves she sees. After Dorothy gets injured, the other members of the ensemble exploit this to convince Julian to use her as the replacement, saying that she has what it takes.
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42nd Street / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
42nd Street / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: The Ambiguous Ending shows Peggy going to the kids' cast party, but inviting Julian. They've also kissed a few times, during rehearsal and in her dressing room. Julian takes out her scarf, sings the last lines, and strokes it.
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42nd Street / int_ba32d232	type	Busby Berkeley Number
42nd Street / int_ba32d232	comment	Busby Berkeley Number: "Young and Healthy" is the most elaborate number in the film, really showing off Berkeley's style.
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42nd Street / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
42nd Street / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: "Anytime Annie." She becomes Abner the producer's new lady friend after his former lady friend leaves to marry her old lover.
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42nd Street / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
42nd Street / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: "Pretty Lady" the stage show.
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42nd Street / int_c3dc8be8	type	Kiss Diss
42nd Street / int_c3dc8be8	comment	Kiss Diss: In the final scene Julian tells Peggy she has "a very loving heart. And I would never want to see it broken." They lean toward each other as if to kiss, but he pushes her away at the last moment. Depending on staging and interpretation, this either cements Julian's reputation as a Manipulative Bastard or is his moment of realizing that I Want My Beloved to Be Happy.
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42nd Street / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
42nd Street / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: 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.
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42nd Street / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
42nd Street / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Abner the producer and his flunkies ogle the girls that 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. Like the song "Dames" says:
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42nd Street / int_e5448c9	type	Pimped-Out Dress
42nd Street / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: The lady sung to in "Young and Healthy" is wearing a dress trimmed with fur.
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42nd Street / int_ef3d1b57	type	Technician Versus Performer
42nd Street / int_ef3d1b57	comment	Technician Versus Performer: Dorothy Brock is the Technician, who has more Broadway training and experience. Peggy is the Performer, whose passion for dance shows in everything she does. In an interesting take, Peggy is also the more skilled dancer of the two, but her characterization is more aligned with the Performer trope.
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42nd Street / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
42nd Street / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: Julian Marsh is the ur-Secretly Dying 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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42nd Street / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
42nd Street / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Keeler as Peggy when Marsh is rehearsing her for the lead part.
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42nd Street / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
42nd Street / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: 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 "Shuffle off to Buffalo" are any indication, "panties" used to be something that men wore.
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