Splashy Hollywood does splashy Broadway in this behind-the-scenes of a show musical. The leading lady is, as many times before, suddenly unavailable and the understudy chorus line girl is thrust into the limelight. Last minute preparations for opening night with the new star turn the entire production on its ear before the big premiere. Many memorable tunes including: "Forty-Second Street," "Young and Healthy," "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" and "Shuffle Off To Buffalo."
42ND STREET was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1998.
DVD Features:
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Choreographer
Busby Berkeley: Choreographer/Director
Source Writer
Bradford Ropes: Novelist/Screenwriter
Cinematographer
Sol Polito: American Diretor of Photography
Review 1:
"...42ND STREET still enchants today....All the vulgar vitality that Warner Bros.' pictures exuded back then..." -- Rating: A
Source: Entertainment Weekly
pp.68-70 05/12/1979
Review 2:
"...Innovative and visually dazzling..."
Source: Premiere
p.4 12/01/2003
Review 3:
"Berkeley hits his stride in the archetypal let's-put-on-a-show pic..."
Source: Total Film
p.121 02/01/2004