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Contributor Julia Mueller

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In Praise Of

The musical magic of Gold Diggers of 1933 at 90

by Julia Mueller

Mervyn LeRoy and Bus­by Berke­ley’s clas­sic pre-Code musi­cal still delights almost a cen­tu­ry lat­er – and its suc­cess is down to a key change in how the sto­ry was bookended.