| 42nd Street Contributor(s): Fumento, Rocco (Editor), Balio, Tino (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0299081044 ISBN-13: 9780299081041 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1980 Annotation: This screenplay of "42nd Street," along with Rocco Fumento's thorough and engrossing introduction, takes the reader behind the scenes to see how the Warners studio took a dismal novel and, working within severe financial constraints brought on by the Great Depression, turned out a smash musical hit. "42nd Street "is a watershed film, one that resuscitated the Hollywood musical during troubled times. Yet 42nd Street wasn't merely a Depression tonic, its multiple plot line was half-comic, half-serious. It was a fast-paced, energetic, and the first musical not to shrink away from the fact that a Depression was going on. The film is an odd, and oddly successful, fusion of the real with the fantastic. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: 812.52 |
| LCCN: 80005106 |
| Series: Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.6" W x 8.41" (0.54 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - New York |