42nd Street Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 86 mins
- Year produced:
- 1933
- Director:
- Lloyd Bacon
- Cast:
- Dick Powell
- Warner Baxter
- Ruby Keeler
Onstage in the Broadway show-within-the-movie that lies at the heart of 42nd Street, everybody is working together in perfect sync - dozens of dancers hoofing together in perfect unison. But backstage, brutal individualism rules as those same dancers plot, flirt and lie to get the lead in show. Raising the stakes of the scheming is the background of the great world economic crisis of the 1930s – back then, it sometimes really was a question of become famous or starve.
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Fascinating facts
This was one of the last films made before the American movie industry imposed a system of strong self-censorship that lasted into the 1960s.