42nd Street (1933)






When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.


Vintage magazines

Photoplay , February 1933
Photoplay , April 1936

Books with substantial mentioning of 42nd Street

National Film Theatre
Fifty famous films, 1915-1945
[London], [[between 1945 and 1960]

Don Tyler
The Great Movie Musicals
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2010
pp. 95-96 info

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

Peter van Gelder
Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films
London, 1990

Danny Peary
Cult Movies, The Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful
New York, 1989

Joel Finler
All-Time Box-Office Hits
New York City, 1985

Homer Dickens
The Films of Ginger Rogers
Secaucus, N.J., 1975

James Robert Parish
Hollywood's Great Love Teams
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

David Zinman
50 Classic Motion Pictures, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
New York, 1970