Gold Diggers: FDR's New Deal... Broadway Bound (2006 Video) User Reviews

"We cannot ever feel what THOSE audiences felt . . . "

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 11 December 2016]

" . . . in the 1930s," Pontificates a film prof (the only type of academic viewed on U.S. campuses as dumber than Criminal Justice instructors) during the final five-minute "Forgotten Man" segment of FDR'S NEW DEAL. Americans are even MADDER right this minute than they were in 1933, as Election Loser Donald J. Rump has frightened the National Media into letting him use the Weasel Bush Loophole to steal a vote Rigged by Russia that he STILL lost by 2.7 MILLION ballots!! After Rump spent months casting aspersions on Gold Star Families such as the Khans, War Heroes including the McCains, and Military Leaders like the Powells, this Brazen Blackguard has just named Vlad "The Impaler" Putin's best buddy as America's top diplomat! This means our Yankee millions of War Dead have all been Sacrificed IN VAIN these past 240 years, with America now reduced to being merely a Russian Satellite State like Moldova or the Ukraine. If World War One Hero and GOLD DIGGERS choreographer Busby Berkeley were alive Today, he'd be angrily mapping out musical numbers to turn the tide against Rump's onslaught of Sex Police and Russian Agents. Time Magazine has named BOTH Adolf Hitler and Donald Rump as its "Man of the Year." What else will this Oddest of Couples prove to have in Common?

Gold Diggers: FDR's New Deal...Broadway Bound is another worthy doc on the GD of '33 DVD

[tavm · 10/10 · 8 January 2013]

Just watched this on the Gold Diggers of 1933 DVD. In this one, various people including directors John Landis and John Waters discuss various things about the movie: Busby Berkeley's contributions, the pre-Code material that wouldn't pass muster a year later, and the "Forgotten Man" number in which they tell of the riots of veteran World War I soldiers during the Hoover administration and also of many of those unemployed waiting in soup kitchens for some grub that inspired this particular number. Oh, and also Ginger Rogers' Pig Latin improvisation of "We're in the Money" that inspired Berkeley to put it on film. Oh, and also Roosevelt's New Deal plan to get the economy rolling again. So on that note, Gold Diggers: FDR's New Deal...Broadway Bound is well worth a look.