Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Direction
Busby Berkeley's kaleidoscopic numbers still hypnotize.
Acting
Judy Garland's heartbreakingly raw 'I'm Always Chasing Rainbows.'
Director
Robert Z. Leonard
James Stewart
Gilbert Young
Judy Garland
Susan Gallagher
Hedy Lamarr
Sandra Kolter
Lana Turner
Sheila Regan
Tony Martin
Frank Merton
Jackie Cooper
Jerry Regan
Ian Hunter
Geoffrey Collis
Charles Winninger
'Pop' Gallagher
Edward Everett Horton
Noble Sage
Philip Dorn
Franz Kolter
Paul Kelly
John Slayton
Eve Arden
Patsy Dixon
Dan Dailey
Jimmy Walters
Al Shean
Al
Fay Holden
Mrs. Regan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Judy Garland's first fully adult dramatic role at 18, and she steals every scene from two of Hollywood's most iconic beauties.
Hedy Lamarr's casting as a European immigrant hiding her musical genius ironically mirrored her real life—she was secretly inventing frequency-hopping technology that would later enable WiFi and GPS.
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