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GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933
November 9, 2013  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

“Jobs! Jobs! Gee, don’t it get ya?” That’s the producer of a proposed new Broadway musical, set during the depression, imagining a closing number in which returning war veterans walk a breadline in the rain, coming home from battle to find unemployment and financial hard times. That turns out to be “Remember My Forgotten Man,” the remarkable closing number, sung by Joan Blondell, of this Depression-era Busby Berkeley movie musical as well – and 80 years later, it’s an astoundingly and sadly timely perspective. What a wild, unusual movie. Aline MacMahon, Ginger Rogers, Ruby Keeler and Blondell star.

 
 
 
 
 
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