
42nd Street(1933)
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.



Joan Blondell
Mabel Anderson

Dick Powell
Jimmy Higgens

Ruby Keeler
Barbara Hemingway

Zasu Pitts
Matilda Hemingway

Guy Kibbee
Horace Hemingway

Hugh Herbert
Ezra Ounce

Arthur Vinton
Bulger

Phil Regan
Johnny Harris

Arthur Aylesworth
Train Conductor

Johnny Arthur
Billings
Dames is a romance, music, comedy film released in 1934 exploring themes of musical, broadway, pre-code. Directed by Ray Enright, it stars Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler. A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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