February 7 movie: Gold Diggers of 1935. Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou and Alice Brady star in this installment of the Gold Diggers series. The plot is totally ridiculous, but of course the point of a Gold Diggers movie isn't the plot, it's the Busby Berkeley musical numbers. This movie includes the famed "Lullaby of Broadway" number, but my favorite was an earlier number featuring synchronized rows of ladies at pianos, swaying and undulating to the music. (The rows of pianos were undulating, not the ladies.)
gold diggers of 1935
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I sometimes think someone should write a monograph on convincing piano faking in movies. The closest I think anybody's come was by Tom the Cat in... um... Musical Mouse? (Suddenly unsure if it was that or a Hungarian Rhapsody cartoon.) ... and by Popeye in THE SPINACH OVERTURE. Everybody else just diddles around, and when the music goes up, they go down. It's like the rule that if a chess set is shown, it has to be set up incorrectly, with a black square on the near right corner. They couldn't be wrong so much of the time by accident!