Busby Berkeley

Busby Berkeley

November 29, 1895

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Busby Berkeley (November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976) was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. Berkeley was famous for his elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns. Berkeley's works u…

Known For

11 titles
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Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

1933 · 1h 37m · Movie

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.

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2
For Me and My Gal

For Me and My Gal

1942 · 1h 44m · Movie

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

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3
Ziegfeld Girl

Ziegfeld Girl

1941 · 2h 12m · Movie

In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.

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Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms

1939 · 1h 34m · Movie

A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got tal...

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The Gang's All Here

The Gang's All Here

1943 · 1h 43m · Movie

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

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Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway

1941 · 1h 58m · Movie

Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney star in a musical directed by Busby Berkeley as two talented teenagers dreaming of success as Babes on Broadway.

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Fast and Furious

Fast and Furious

1939 · 1h 13m · Movie

Rare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge - much to her chagrin.

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Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel

1938 · 1h 49m · Movie

Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But she ...

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9
Palmy Days

Palmy Days

1931 · 1h 17m · Movie

The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.

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Brother Can You Spare a Dime

Brother Can You Spare a Dime

1975 · 1h 43m · Movie

A nostalgic look back at the Great Depression with contemporary archival footage and film clips picturing James Cagney as an American Everyman.

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Bright Lights

Bright Lights

1935 · 1h 22m · Movie

Joe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out to do something strange (e.g. being a chor...

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