Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) is a Warner Bros. comedy/musical film which is historically important as the second talkie (a term used early in the sound-film era to describe a film with synchronized speech) photographed entirely in Technicolor. It became a box office sensation, making Winnie Lightner a worldwide star and boosting guitarist crooner Nick Lucas to further fame as he sang two songs that became 20th century standards: 'Tiptoe Throug...
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Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) is a Warner Bros. comedy/musical film which is historically important as the second talkie (a term used early in the sound-film era to describe a film with synchronized speech) photographed entirely in Technicolor. It became a box office sensation, making Winnie Lightner a worldwide star and boosting guitarist crooner Nick Lucas to further fame as he sang two songs that became 20th century standards: 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' and 'Painting the Clouds with Sunshine'.
Based on the 1919 play The Gold Diggers (which was also turned into a silent film of the same name in 1923, now lost), Gold Diggers of Broadway utilized Technicolor, showgirls and sound as its main selling points.
It earned a domestic gross of $3.5 Million, extending to over $5 Million worldwide (adjusted for inflation in 2007 this would be a gross of around $60 Million). The original production cost was approximately $500,000. This film was so popular that it quickly became the top...
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