One hundred dancers in the great dance finale of the "Lullaby of Broadway" designed by Busby Berkeley in Gold Diggers of 1935. Check out my Comic Spirit blog for thoughts about classic Hollywood comedies at comicspiritblog.wordpress.com/
Wow! That Club Royale was some amazing night club, situated on an upper floor of a skyscraper with a gigantic dance floor, two orchestra stands, and a seating capacity of... just two? Well, I guess the cover charge must have been pretty high. I am sure Dick Powell could afford it. Next time though, Dick, make sure that balcony glass door remains locked!
Wow. I've been watching this for over 50 years and not once did the Nazis, Nuremburg or Leni Riefenstahl come to mind. And I am an ardent WWII-European theater history buff.
Thank you so much for this! I think this is my favorite of all the BB dance sequences. There's nothing quite like hundreds of people tap dancing in unison.
Ahh the good old days, when the women were young and the men were young all could dance like CRAZY! I wonder how many takes it took for Busby Berkeley to capture this masterpiece?
Now thats more like it. I really like this scene even after the mass dance. The one uploaded it first cut that part for some reasonable purposes. But I really like this one Thanks for sharing it. And please don't put this down. Stay safe!!!
Nice! I haven't seen the film, but I've heard it's a bit disappointing compared with the brilliant Gold Diggers of 1933. This is a good music/dance scene, and the song made me think of the recently departed Tony Bennett who had it in his repertoire.
This is the greatest dance routine of all time, itwill never age and it will never die as long as I'm alive and I'm 76 now. And it was white people that did it.