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Episode 14 – 42nd Street (1933)

It’s 1933. It’s the Depression, and audiences want movies that don’t sugarcoat the truth, but they want escapism too. That means it’s time for a new type of musical. Hollywood released more than 100 musical films only three years earlier in 1930, but by 1933, they had largely disappeared as a genre. Choreographer Busby Berkeley…

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