Talk:42nd Street (film)

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[edit] Dialog...

To the unidentified editor who removed it, I have re-introduced the line “Did you ever try to cash a reputation in a bank?”, he asks. to the article because (a) it's a good sample of the movie's dialog throughout, and (b) it reinforces the desperation of the era and the characters of the move. If you disagree, I'll be happy to ""read" you out". Thank you, Shir-El too 15:44, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bankruptcy

For the time being I've removed the claim made in the lede that 42nd Street saved Warner Bros. from bankruptcy. After doing a little research, I can't find a reliable source to verify this, and I've seen the claim be phrased in a variety of ways that probably indicate that it's an apocryphal story. It's far from clear from what I've seen that Warners was even facing bankruptcy at that moment in time, and I've seen no clear statement that this movie alone, or even it and the other Busby Berkeley classics of 1933 ("Footlight Parade" and "Gold Diggers of 1933") actually floated the company.

If true, it would be a great thing to have in the article, so I hope someone can come up with a citation - from a reliable source - to back it up. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ^{(talk / cont)} 03:30, 21 February 2008 (UTC)