Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
Mary and her steady, Jack, have differing opinions on "the stage"-- Mary wishes to devote her life to the craft, while Jack strives to settle down and leave all that play-acting behind. When a traveling troupe that performs a Fall-of-Roman epic is ordered to strike, both Mary and Jack are called upon to participate in their stead.
Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away and all of his friends leave him alone. Through many life choices that don't work out in his favor, Roddy begins to find his life slowly spiraling out of his control.
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.
Warner Brothers' opfindsomme, livsbekræftende musicals fra 30'erne, ofte med Busby Berkeleys koreografi og med sange af Harry Warren og Al Dubin, er blandt de bedste inden for genren, og 42nd Street fra 1933 er måske den allerbedste, de lavede. Det er en såkaldt backstage musical – en musical om det at lave en musical – og den blev i sin tid så stor en succes, at den reddede filmselskabet fra at gå fallit. Filmen er en evigt ung og frisk fest for øjet og øret.
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
I den vel nok mest kendte af Astaire/Rogers' berømte 30'er musicals spiller Fred en entertainer, som demonstrerer sine nyeste dansetrin på et hotel i London til stor irritation for Ginger, der sover på værelset nedenunder. Hun går ovenpå for at klage over støjen, og de to bliver straks tiltrukket af hinanden. Foruden parrets dansenumre swinger filmen på grund af Irving Berlins sange og herlige birollepræstationer af Eric Blore og den uforlignelige Edward Everett Horton.
A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
A filmed performance of a burlesque show at the Follies Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.
A short burlesque act with comedians and strippers, shot in 3D
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort to dirty tricks to disrupt the first night's performance!
A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of young, attractive women committing various forms of self-mutilation.