42nd Street is a 1933 American Warner Bros. musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin , and the script was written by Rian James and James Seymour, with Whitney Bolton , from the novel by Bradford Ropes. The film is a backstage musical, and was very successful at the box office.42nd Street was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1934, and in 1998 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or... aesthetically significant". In 2006 this film ranked 13th on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals. It is 1932, during the early days of the Depression, and Broadway producers Jones and Barry put on Pretty Lady, a musical starring beautiful Dorothy Brock . Brock is involved with industrialist Abner Dillon , who is the show's "angel" .
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| Release date: | 1933 |
| Directed by: | Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley |
| Runtime: | 89 Minutes |
| Producer: | Darryl F. Zanuck, Hal B. Wallis |
| Editor: | Frank Ware, Thomas Pratt, Thomas Pratt |
| Music by: | Harry Warren, Al Dubin |
| Cinematography: | Sol Polito |
| Screenplay by: | Bradford Ropes, Rian James, James Seymour |
| Estimated budget: | $439,000 |
| Genre: | Musical |