- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 Vitaphone Prelude
- 2 The Sound Barrier
- 3 “You Were Meant for Me”
- 4 On with the Show!
- 5 Finding a Voice
- 6 Dueling Mammies
- 7 Hollywood, Revued
- 8 Broadway Babies
- 9 “With All Its Original Stage Enchantment”
- 10 Just Imagine
- 11 The Cuckoos
- 12 Of Viennese Nights and Golden Dawns
- 13 Is It a Musical?
- 14 The March of Time
- 15 Voices in the Wilderness
- 16 “We're in the Money”
- 17 The Past as Prologue
- Finale
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix I Notes on Lost Films
- Appendix II A Selective Discography: The First Musicals on Record
- Source Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
“We're in the Money”
“We're in the Money”
- Chapter:
- (p.359) 16 “We're in the Money”
- Source:
- A Song in the Dark
- Author(s):
Richard Barrios
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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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- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 Vitaphone Prelude
- 2 The Sound Barrier
- 3 “You Were Meant for Me”
- 4 On with the Show!
- 5 Finding a Voice
- 6 Dueling Mammies
- 7 Hollywood, Revued
- 8 Broadway Babies
- 9 “With All Its Original Stage Enchantment”
- 10 Just Imagine
- 11 The Cuckoos
- 12 Of Viennese Nights and Golden Dawns
- 13 Is It a Musical?
- 14 The March of Time
- 15 Voices in the Wilderness
- 16 “We're in the Money”
- 17 The Past as Prologue
- Finale
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix I Notes on Lost Films
- Appendix II A Selective Discography: The First Musicals on Record
- Source Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index