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Gold Diggers of 1937
''Gold Diggers of 1937'' is a 1936 Warner Bros. movie musical directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley, and starring Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, who were married at the time, and Victor Moore. The film features songs by the teams of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg and Harry Warren and Al Dubin, and was based on the play ''Sweet Mystery of Life'' by Richard Maibaum,〔Richard Maibaum went on to write such James Bond films as ''From Russia with Love'' (1963) and ''Goldfinger'' (1964).〕 Michael Wallach and George Haight, which ran very briefly on Broadway in 1935.〔IBDB (Sweet Mystery of Life )〕 Warren Duff wrote the screenplay, apparently with the assistance of Tom Warren, who's billed as "Screenplay constructor".
''Gold Diggers of 1937'' was the fourth in Warner Bros.' series of "Gold Digger" films, following ''Gold Diggers of Broadway'' (1929), which is now lost (with 1923 version), ''Gold Diggers of 1933'', which was a remake of the earlier film, and the first to feature Busby Berkeley's extravagant production numbers, and ''Gold Diggers of 1935''.〔Warners also released a silent film, ''The Gold Diggers'', in 1923, based on the same play that was used as source material for ''Gold Diggers of Broadway'' and ''Gold Diggers of 1933''.〕 It was followed by ''Gold Diggers in Paris'' (1938).
==Plot==
Meek, aging, hypochondriac stage producer J.J. Hobart (Victor Moore), who always thinks he is about to die, is going to mount a new show, but his partners Morty Wethered (Osgood Perkins) and Tom Hugo (Charles D. Brown) lost the money for the show in the stock market. On the advice of chorus girl Genevieve Larkin (Glenda Farrell), they insure J.J. for a million dollars, so that when he dies, they will have the money they need to produce the show. Genevieve's friend, ex-chorus girl Norma Perry (Joan Blondell) is sweet on insurance salesman Rosmer "Rossi" Peck (Dick Powell), and he writes the policy.
When Rossi's boss, Andy Callahan (William B. Davidson) finds out how old J.J. is, he is afraid he wil not pass the physical, but when Hobart does, Rossi decides he has to keep J.J. alive as long as possible, to reap the rewards of his sale. On the other hand, Morty and Hugo have everything to gain if J.J. dies, and they try to help things along. When that fails, they talk Genevieve into seducing J.J., but she ends up falling in love with him instead. Rossi finds out the reason for the insurance policy, and talks his boss, Callahan, into investing in J.J.'s show, to save the company the money it would have to pay if J.J. dropped dead after learning he was broke and could not put on the show. When the show is a success Genevieve and J.J. get married, and so do Norma and Rossi.〔IMDB (Plot Summary ), TCM (Full Synopsis )〕
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