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I like the beginning where Cagney watches different dancers


When Cagney goes from room to room checking out all the different dancers and deciding who he wants and not. And I liked seeing all the different styles of the various stage girls trying out for the shows. Many of the 30s Busby Burkley films, including this one, "Dames", "Gold diggers 33" and "Gold diggers 35", the "Broadway melody" films, the show at the end of Judy Garland's "Everybody sing", and even the Marx bros. "A day at the races" has a show of the sort. They all have many different great , wonderful stage girls, or chorus girls, or showgirls, or you can just say dancers. I guess you can call them any one of those things. Whatever I'll call them, I love em and it is certainly a part of what makes these 1930s and 1940s films so wonderful and special.

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The "Ziegfeld follies" was another name to call the groups of dancing girls, such as in "The great Ziegfeld".

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