Friday Afternoon Videos: ‘Remember My Forgotten Man’

4 comments September 26th, 2008

With economic issues dominating the week’s news, seems like a good time to look back at another era of bleak economic news. GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 was a Warner Bros. musical from the early days of the Great Depression that managed to combine dazzling dance numbers (courtesy of the legendary Busby Berkeley) with genuine social comment.

The film begins with Ginger Rogers leading a rousing chorus of “We’re in the Money” that ends mid-song as creditors barge into the rehearsal and repo the props and costumes. It ends even more impressively, with Joan Blondell and Etta Motten singing this tribute to the guys who won World War I only to lose the economic battles that followed. It’s long — but well worth watching.

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