"Lullaby of Broadway" from "Gold Diggers of 1935"

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1935 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

Busby Berkeley's choreography for the show-stopping "Lullaby of Broadway" in The Gold Diggers of 1935 is famous for the jazzy complexity and precision tap dancing of one hundred performers in simultaneous movement. The stars of the film, Dick Powell and Wini Shawm are the only patrons in the lavish nightclub portrayed in this publicity still.

Artist

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Date

1935

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987