Joan Blondell Sings “Remember My Forgotten Man”
August 6th, 2008 by Andre Soares
Martin Rubin’s "Jobless Number: Economics and sex in a Depression-era Busby Berkeley musical" at Moving Image Source:
"’Remember My Forgotten Man’ is the simplest and most straightforward of Berkeley’s big numbers in the classic Warner Bros. musicals. Its directness is a consequence of its political commitment. Its points are punched across for maximum impact, most forcefully by the jarring blackouts that drive home the number’s thematic connections more viscerally and vigorously than even a direct cut would do. ‘Remember My Forgotten Man’ is one of Hollywood’s hardest-hitting political statements of the ’30s — much more so than the treatment of similar material in Warner Bros.’s Heroes for Sale."
The clip above, with Joan Blondell singing "Remember My Forgotten Man" (composed by Al Dubin and Harry Warren), is from Gold Diggers of 1933, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, with choreography by Busby Berkeley.
The clip was posted by lodrochoying.
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