When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.
Direction
Mervyn LeRoy's snappy pre-code pacing before the Hays Code neutered Hollywood
Cinematography
Busby Berkeley's kaleidoscopic dance numbers that defy physics and logic
Acting
Joan Blondell's razor-sharp delivery of every double entendre
Director
Mervyn LeRoy
Warren William
Lawrence
Joan Blondell
Carol
Aline MacMahon
Trixie
Ruby Keeler
Polly
Dick Powell
Brad
Guy Kibbee
Peabody
Ned Sparks
Barney
Ginger Rogers
Fay
Etta Moten
'Remember My Forgotten Man' Singer (uncredited)
Charles C. Wilson
Deputy (uncredited)
Busby Berkeley
Call Boy (uncredited)
Charles Lane
Society Reporter (uncredited)
Billy Barty
Baby in "Pettin' in the Park" Number (uncredited)
Tammany Young
Gigolo Eddie (uncredited)
Maynard Holmes
First Delivery Boy (uncredited)
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