Review of Gold Diggers of Broadway

. . . which many of my classmates contended was GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933, where choreographer Busby Berkeley hit his stride. I have not been able to find out what sort of military background--if any--Larry Ceballos, the quasi-choreographer of GOLD DIGGERS OF BR0ADWAY, had, but it is evident he was not an Army drill instructor like Busby, given the unsightly randomness of the movie segment which includes a brief snatch of the tune "Tip-toe through the Tulips." Furthermore, the Finale sequence which seems to have something to do with the ballet Swan Lake serves primarily to illustrate the progress made in four short years when movies went from being pale imitations of theatrical revues to using the technology of the camera coupled with an understanding of value inherent in cinema's restricted viewpoints to being able to totally transcend and blow away stage visuals with those seen in GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 and Berkeley's other masterpiece, FOOTLIGHT PARADE. Fortunately for folks born after 1920, those films survive in their entirety.