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A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film

Richard Barrios

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780195377347

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377347.001.0001

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“We're in the Money”

“We're in the Money”

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(p.359) 16 “We're in the Money”
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A Song in the Dark
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Richard Barrios

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377347.003.0017

The musical resurgence was spearheaded by the election of Franklin Roosevelt and by Warner's 42nd Street, both of which indicated that better times were ahead. Busby Berkeley's dance spectacles became a symbol of the new optimism even as Gold Diggers of 1933 mirrored Depression woes. Backstage films made a comeback as musical genres became more standardized, and at the end of the year Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in Flying Down to Rio, indicated a new direction for screen dance.

Keywords:   42nd Street, Franklin Roosevelt, Warner Bros, Depression, Busby Berkeley, Ruby Keeler, backstage, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers

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