It was always the music. A golden age.

So true! Beautiful!

In the early 70s, it was possible to see a movie for $1, Jerry Lewis the comedian and actor, has this chain of movie theaters. I always had the impression that Jerry wanted movies to be as affordable as possible, he was a generous soul.

Yes, I understand he was blacklisted.

Wow you worked with him?!

But her amateurishness made her endearing, charming and refreshing and lovable. She constantly glanced at the camera. Can't imagine her being unkind.

Ruby is like the Sun,what would you or what could you change about her!!!!!!!!

I love Ruby in all her films, she was so wonderful, sweet, beautiful, and charming in every film she was in from 1932-1941, and then again in 1969 in Broadway's "No no Nanette"

@@allenrichards4176 I agree completely. NO NO NANETTE was 1971.

I disagree

It was actually Bobby Connolly and Paul Draper. Connolly's stuff gets mistaken for Berkeley's all the time. An interesting fact, that they were both involved in choreographing different bits of the same movie once. That was The Wizard of Oz, but Berkeley's dance for Ray Bolger for the If I Only Had a Brain number got removed due to space considerations. Connolly's stuff stayed in.

His mother was Muriel Draper, important in so many literary circles.His aunt, the one and only Ruth Draper, one of Lily Tomlin's role models.

Jane Doe.....Don’t forget Agnes Moorehead. She was a cast member and, also, died of Cancer attributed the shooting location.

True, but sad footnote 😭

I was aware of the curse of that movie. Dick Powell, one of my favourite actors. That transition he made from baby-faced crooner to starring in hard boiled & Noir dramas was brilliant. He also so busy on radio TV & a producer/director. Taken too young as you rightly say.

Yes, she was very clumsy in her earlier films. She shows much more fluidity in this film - better acting too !

It waz also the style

Did Draper, 'The Aristocrat of Tap', coach her? He was lightness personified-- here his taps are probably dubbed too loud by someone else. Ruby is so unaffectedly sweet that one forgives her any tendency to lumber. Dick Powell is such an eager beaver that the same applies. I find Draper more impressive than emotive: a little too refined and precise for the gutsy comic musicals of the Hungry Thirties. His face was off-puttingly snooty too. His pieces de resistance were tapping to classical music or without music at all, which did not square with brash, jazz-based Great American Songs. But the moguls could have fitted him in as a novelty; after all, Katherine Dunham's company turned up in 'Cabin in the Sky'! Shame that once Draper got out from under the blacklist, the genre was heading for the pretentious badlands of Robbins and Sondheim. He wore well and might have made a comeback in the later 1950s in a more elegant species of production than 'West Side Story'.

Ah, but she had gone out a youngster but she had come back a star, remember?

@@esmeephillips5888 buddy ebsen danced like it

I could watch a movie of just Ruby smiling, she looks like pure sunshine!!!!!!!

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Great to hear knowledgeable analysis from a Draper student. Maybe you could apply it to routines by some of the great movie dancers of the Golden Age? I did hear that Paul annoyed some in Hollywood by his somewhat condescending attitude, like Cyd Charisse... though that might be jealousy talking. Years later a different kind of hoofer, Jimmy Cagney, gave Draper another shot at movies in 'The Time of Your Life', but PD looked too old to be an aspiring star, and rather silly prancing about in the saloon. 'Colleen' shows him at his feather-footed best.

But then you would have been called up to fight in the War. There's always a downside to any decade.

avant1277 Thank you for the information!

THANKS from Germany 💕 I already have a Busby-Berkeley-Collection including 3 films with Dick & Ruby that delights me VERY MUCH

Then you have a number of films to catch up on. He made a lot of musicals.

Why? Because they're blondes? None of these girls look like Ms. Rogers.

@@edwardharbur4907 The girls prancing in riding breeches remind one of Ginger in 'Isn't This a Lovely Day To Be Caught in the Rain?', from 'Top Hat', shot the previous year.

​@@edwardharbur4907 Miss Rogers wasn't blonde. The clue is in the name.

It's about more than looking well groomed and amiable. In those days girls in their early twenties assumed the dignity and comportment of adult women. Today women of 40 act like vulgar kids, such is the dread of aging. Consider the persona Beyonce or Lady Gaga presents compared with that of Bette Davis or Ginger Rogers. The First World War resulted in female emancipation. The Second World War produced reincarceration. Hollywood in the 1930s was full of strong-minded but feminine and glamorous role models: Garbo, Dietrich, Crawford, Stanwyck, Lombard, Katharine Hepburn, Davis, Rogers, Mae West. In the Fifties woman stars were wriggling, giggling sexpots such as Monroe and Mansfield, or child-women such as Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron. By the Seventies there was a serious lack of A-list female names. The daughters of Womens' Lib did not possess fascinating personalities. The second wave of feminist ideology blanched them as thoroughly as their back-to-the-kitchen moms. The destruction of individuality was completed by the spread of lockstep liberalism and political correctness, so that there are no longer any actresses capable of projecting their own natures. The most admired, such as Meryl Streep, submerge into their roles. The rest, such as Gwyneth Paltrow, are kooks or conformists.

@@esmeephillips5888 Does this explain why todays women don't have waists and weigh three times as much?

Same goes for the men

@@jbac45 There is more to it than that. This is not at all representative of America at that time. It's pure fantasy.

Yes of course,you are absolutely right, but what a beautiful fantasy....we always tend to idealize the past and identify it with the lives of the very wealthy...ignoring the difficulties and harshness of reality....nostalgia for a past which wasn’t really what we would like it to be...in the end we have never had it so good as today...plus we have the luxury to recreate the style ,lifestyle and the look of any period we wish, minus the ugly bits...so let’s enjoy the fantasy..

Make sure and check the 3 Stooges' "Slippery Silks" (1937), which features a similar (but much more insane) fashion show ("I think I'd look stunning in that riding habit...").

i agree she didnt have the best voice but that was part of her charm in my opinion she was a very pretty beautiful lady who i would have fancied if i had lived in them days god bless her.