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I must be related to you then hehehe

Yes,I remember they had a season of classic films from the 30's.I so miss watching them

You would like "Footlight Parade" with Ruby and Cagney. Dancing galore. Also Busby Berkeley directed.

@@firetopman ...yes, I've seen Foootlight Parade. I have watched TCM since its inception.

All those tap sounds in later movies were added in post production as that style of tap dancing didn't produce the distinct rhythm of sound required live to camera. I actually love Ruby Keelers clunky tap technique.

And he could be rough on talent. For example, Judy Garland.

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Ruby Keeler was a huge, box office sensation during the Great Depression making movie after movie when many were unemployed.

I love watching her dance

That's an awesome story

Female stage dancers always have those awful shoes with the ties across the top. Seems to be traditional for tapping. Thank god they seem to use better looking shoes now. I know they get a lot of punishment, but surely they could have looked better.

Yeah they should have used less clunky shoes..she was pretty good but I think Rita Hayworth and Ginger Rogers are my favorites......

She was a stage tap dancer, and a good one. But Rita, Ginger and the others were artists, using another dimension, no doubt choreographed and staged by Astaire. PS: Ginger was in the chorus of this.

Rita Hayworth was a great Dancer no doubt so was Ginger, But you got to include Ann Miller and Eleanor Powell.

I agree!

Tapping was meant to be heard way up to the top of the cheap seats ...

Anyone who daubs sickly pastels over a shimmering monochromatic design should get ten years in Leavenworth or eleven years in Twelveworth. What's next for the treatment, Durer's engravings?

There's a line in Singin' in the Rain about the character Lena Lamont. 'She can't act. She can't sing. She can't dance! She's a triple-threat!' This line was originally said about Ruby Keeler. But you're right, she does well enough to be well worth watching!

That's right (great film, of course) Gene Kelly apparently liked that line, because--I remembered this vaguely, but had to Google the specific--in an LA Times interview in '94 he reminisced about the 'old days' and said of an actress MGM was futilely trying to turn into a star and foisted on him: "...and she turned out to be a triple threat who couldn't sing, dance or act. " (Marie McDonald, for trivia lovers)

"a triple threat who couldn't sing, dance or act" sounds paradise to many after a century of studio-dictated professionalism. My, they can create a whole culture yet get it so badly wrong at times. You go girl - the studio will want to forget, we'll remember! :)

True humility. Perhaps not the greatest yet still good at what she did. ☺

WytZox1 In the few things I've seen her in, I thought she was charming, simple, earnest and sincere. Hardly necessary to say she lacked the depth, charisma and talent of, say, Judy Garland; but from what I've read she also had a much happier, saner life after show biz.

I totally agree with you!

All the films out now seem to be about shooting & killing.

You've got that right.

.... Where the Underworld can meet the Elite, 42nd Street... Sounds violent to me

compared to our world right now now the 2010s were good times 🫣

I agree with you. Eleanor Powell the greatest tap dancer ever!

Thank you for the lyrics post.

I apologise for disagreeing. She was all those things, but also a bit cloyingly sweet. Her dancing style was, by comparison with others, ungraceful and clumsy. I don't know about technicalities, and, as the man said, I know what I like....etc...

Not a great dancer and a mediocre singer but she had bundles of charm.

DANIELE MOURA I thought that was Clara Bow's voice.

Nope, that is Jean from the film "Red Headed Woman" 1932, she is telling Chester Morris to slap her again.

She was a hard worker. She started at age 13. God bless her.

Bob Knob well heck Elsie Janis started at 2 and she was a female actress and vaudevillian in her day

julia montgomery Two Totally different eras. This was the Era where people were still multi-talented...so I can understand the frustration. But the most important thing is that people found her entertaining, yourself included...that's what really counts!

I love this number and I think Ruby Keeler was fantastic! I don't know why some people put her down, she had charm and talent.

2reeler, thanks for this coloured version of the marvelous Ruby Keeler. Julie, Ruby was fantabulous! End of story. Critics, etc., can say want they want.

+Tim Doonan The fact that she wasn't a perfect singer just makes her all the more lovable and full of character. Everytime this movies come on TCM I DVR it and fall in love all over again. That was an era of Hollywood I find so attractive, beautiful glamorous women, glitz and Art Deco everywhere, just can't beat it.

SDpickups, I couldn't agree more with everything you just said

@@SDPickups words I could never find, but perfect summarization.

But in her films Ruby's shucks-folks awk act suited her characters. As 42nd Street's Peggy, "who, ME?!"

Ruby's voice got deeper and her dancing better. Her tapping here looks like she is trying to punch holes in the floor, but by the time of ' Colleen' (1936) she is creditably keeping up with Paul Draper, who was positively aerial. For all her limitations, she never fails to overcome them with her sparkling, slightly naive yet mischievous personality. Love her look when she and Dick pull the blind down.

Anyone who tap danced were called hoofer

James Cagney was one of the best hoofers. However, he was typecast as a gangster by Warner Bros. until he got his big dancing break in "Yankee Doodle Dandy." That movie garnered him his only Oscar, for Best Actor.

And that dance down the steps at the White House in "Yankee" was a Cagney adlib! It was NOT in the script.

She is very cute. Great stage presence

love that style of tap, dead from the waist up

No, the eighties means the block of streets in Manhattan. The fifties, same thing. Hence "42nd Street."

I'm sorry for your troubles. Obviously that's a finite occupation, with all the rugged footwork involved. The fact you lasted that long is quite a feat. Ummm...

+cinemabon Well you're right and kinda right, and wrong. 42nd St.was not shot in color nor did it include color inserts. While it is true that all Warner Bros. films that were either all color or included color scenes from this era were shot in Technicolor, Technicolor was by no means the only color film process available. Warner bros.did not develop Warnercolor, they just put their name on the Eastmancolor process, just as MGM did with Metrocolor, Pathe with Pathecolor, Columbia with Columbiacolor, and 20th Century Fox with Deluxe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_Warner_Bros._talking_features en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_color_feature_films www.nfsa.gov.au/site_media/uploads/file/2010/09/09/NFSAJournal-Vol3-Nos2_3.pdf (page 6) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%C3%A9color

The fact remains this is a colorized black and white feature. I didn't go into the history of the colorization process because that would be too wordy. But at the time this film was made, only one color process existed in Hollywood and that was Technicolor.

If you look at the list of movies produced in color for the year 1933 or 1932, 42nd Street was NOT on the list (all the movies made in Hollywood in those years). Here is the source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_color_feature_films

Kelly Brown, Sorry but you are wrong. This was filmed in glorious black and white! Turner in the beginning colorized a lot of these old movies. All the Shirley Temple movies, Laurel and Hardy etc. Then he realized his mistake.

Problem is cinemabon, and the same goes to jonel's channel, is that Wikipedia isn't a totally reliable source of factual information (it continually asks for updates), you need to back it up with facts from another source.

Leave it to a man to reduce a woman to body parts.

There is an innocence about her, a youthful charm that seemed to halo her for the entirety of her career.