42nd Street

(1933)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 223 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Year: 1933

Runtime: 89 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Lloyd Bacon

Cast: Уорнер Бакстер, Биби Дэниелс, George Brent, Руби Килер, Гай Кибби, Una Merkel, Джинджер Роджерс, Ned Sparks, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins

Plot

Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.

Renowned Broadway producer/director Julian Marsh is hired to put together a new musical revue. It's being financed by Abner Dillon to provide a starring vehicle for his girlfriend, songstress Dorothy Brock. Marsh, who is quite ill, is a difficult taskmaster who works long hours and continually pushes the cast to do better. When Brock breaks her ankle one of the chorus girls, Peggy Sawyer, gets her big chance to be the star. She also finds romance along the way.