Busby Berkeley Collection Volume 2

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This Collection includes "Hollywood Hotel", "Gold Diggers In Paris", "Gold Diggers Of 1937" and "Varsity Show". "Hollywood Hotel": If you love music, check into Hollywood Hotel. The story's about a filmland newbie (Dick Powell) caught between a spoiled star (Lola Lane) and her likeable look-alike (Lola's look-alike sister Rosemary Lane). But the movie's about Busby Berkeley's ace direction ? and music, music, music. The film opens with the jubilant debut of Tinseltown's unofficial anthem "Hooray For Hollywood". The jaunty "Let That Be A Lesson To You" shows off Berkeley's snazzy-jazzy mastery of editing and camera angles. And Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - including Harry James on trumpet and Gene Krupa on drums - swing, swing, swing into "Sing, Sing, Sing". Hooray for "Hollywood Hotel". "Gold Diggers In Paris": The Gold Diggers are headed for Paris, bringing their feathers, frills, New Yawk tawk - and ballet shoes! A French diplomat has mistaken 43rd Street's Club Balle for the American Academy Ballet, and the chorus cuties aren't going to turn down a free trip to the City of Light over such a tiny misunderstanding. As one Gold Digger explains to her Gallic friend: Just tell me how to yes in French. Rudy Vallee stars as the club's impresario and Busby Berkeley creates and directs the inventive musical numbers for Gold Diggers in Paris, a movie musical both magnifique and loaded with moxie. Lafayette, they are here. "Gold Diggers Of 1937": What's a chorine to do after her show flops? Become a gold digger! The cuties do so en masse as the "Gold Diggers Of 1937", kicking Depression Era blues in the keester. Dick Powell plays an insurance agent with musical ambitions, Joan Blondell is a showgirl who gives up spangles for a stenographer's pad and... well, who watches any "Diggers" for its plot? Instead, watch as dance creator Busby Berkeley turns a garden party into a tap-happy romp.