Book Tickets

Thu 17 Oct
18:00

The Fashion Film Club presents The Gold Diggers of 1933 18

Mervyn LeRoy, USA, 1933, 97m.

Join the Fashion Film Club for a special screening of Gold Diggers of 1933, chosen by Holly Waddington, Academy Award Winner for Best Costume Design (Poor Things). The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Holly and FFC founder Sarah Bailey about costume design, desire and fantasy.


A Broadway producer has the talent, the tunes, the theatre and everything else he needs to put on a show – except the dough. Not to worry, say Ginger Rogers and the other leggy chorines decked out in giant coins. Everyone will soon be singing We're in the Money. Soon after 42nd Street, the brothers Warner again kicked the Depression blues out the stage door and into a back alley. Mervyn Le Roy directs the snappy non-musical portions involving three wonderfully silly love matches (including Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler). And Busby Berkeley brings his peerless magic to the production numbers, his camera swooping and gliding to showstoppers that are naughty (Pettin' in the Park), neon-lit (The Shadow Waltz) and soul-searing (Remember My Forgotten Man). Solid cinema gold! - Warner Bros


The third of a Gold Diggers "franchise", the film tells the story of show girls trying to make a living during the Great Depression, which the film references openly. The Gold Diggers of 1933 is often cited as one of the great classics of pre-Code Hollywood.

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Book Tickets

Thu 17 Oct
18:00

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