Tag Archives: Busby Berkeley

We’re In The Money

Posted on February 23, 2010 by admin

(the second of three installments) Movies were big business during the years of the Great Depression. So it follows that Hollywood must have been giving audiences something they really wanted in order to get them to part with their precious … Continue reading →

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Migrant Mothers & Gold Diggers

Posted on February 20, 2010 by admin

(the first of three installments) I was watching Gold Diggers of 1933 the other day… (NB: the subtitle of this blog is “rants and reflections of a middle-aged homosexual”; if you’ve read this far, you’ve given up any right to … Continue reading →

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