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Gold Diggers In Paris (1938)

• Director
  • Ray Enright
• Writers
  • Earl Baldwin(screenplay)
  • Warren Duff(screenplay)
  • Jerry Wald(story)
• Stars
  • Rudy Vallee
  • Rosemary Lane
  • Hugh Herbert

  The last and least of Warner Bros.' Gold Diggers musicals, Gold Diggers in Paris at least has the novelty of a Gallic setting. The stars this time are Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, and Warners musical perennial Hugh Herbert. There aren't really any "gold diggers" (i.e. young ladies on the prowl for rich husbands), merely a troupe of stranded nightclub chorines whom Vallee passes off as a ballet troupe in order to win an international prize. Busby Berkeley's choreography is far from his best, especially since he's dealing with real dancers this time instead of geometrically arranged nonmoving bodies. The one song of note is "The Latin Quarter," later put to excellent use in countless Bugs Bunny and Pepe Le Pew cartoons.