Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.
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“The Greatest Musical Hit the Screen Has Ever Known!”

42nd Street Trailer (1933)
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