'42nd Street' Broadway Musical Film, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, 1933, Depression 🎭

Ruby Keeler in color. This popular musical film and others entertained Americans during the Great Depression. FDR also enjoyed Hollywood movies.
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- 42nd Street is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon, with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It starred an ensemble cast of Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, and Ginger Rogers.

- The story revolved around the cast and crew rehearsing for a Broadway show at the height of the Great Depression. 42nd Street was one of the most successful motion pictures of 1933, earning almost $1.5 million at the box office. At the 6th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Picture.

In 1998, 42nd Street was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2006, the film was ranked number 13 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest musicals of all time...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Street_(film)