Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Billy Lawler: [to Peggy Sawyer] Hey, I`ve been for you ever since you walked in on me in my BVD`s.
Ann Lowell: [to chorus girl] It must have been hard on your mother, not having any children.
Julian Marsh: Sawyer, you listen to me, and you listen hard. Two hundred people, two hundred jobs, two hundred thousand dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It`s the lives of all these people who`ve worked with you. You`ve got to go on, and you`ve got to give and give and give. They`ve got to like you. Got to. Do you understand? You can`t fall down. You can`t because your future`s in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right, now I`m through, but you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and Sawyer, you`re going out a youngster but you`ve got to come back a star!
Dorothy Brock: Now go out there and be so swell that you`ll make me hate you!
Jerry: It seems that little Loraine`s hit the bottle again.
Mac Elroy: Yah, the peroxide bottle.
Trivia
Fourty-second Street opened at the Winter Garden Theater on August 25, 1980 and ran for 3486 performances.
This film, released on March 9, 1933, single-handedly rescued the movie musical, which had been considered a money losing proposition since mid-1930. Early "all talking, all dancing" musicals typically suffered from severe camera restrictions coupled with poor musical staging, soured the public on the genre in general (Universal`s huge losses from the lively King of Jazz (1930) had put an unofficial moratorium on the musical) and no other studio wanted to risk producing one. Warners, at the time of the film`s release, had Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) nearing completion and pre-production plans were well underway for Footlight Parade (1933), all utilizing the talents of Busby Berkeley. The success of this film would convince Radio Pictures to produce Flying Down to Rio (1933) (released that December). Other major studios would continue to shy away from musicals throughout 1933, although Paramount would proceed with plans to produce the lavish Murder at the Vanities (1934) toward the end of the year.
Movie was adapted as a Broadway musical and opened in 1980 starring Jerry Orbach and Tammy Grimes.
Illness prevented Mervyn LeRoy from directing, so he handed the reins over to Lloyd Bacon.
Film debut of Ruby Keeler.
The movie`s poster was as #7 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere.
The movie`s line "Sawyer, you`re going out a youngster, but you`ve got to come back a star!" was voted as the #87 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
When it premiered in New York City at the Strand Theatre in March 1933, Variety reported that some of the musical numbers were projected on the enlarged grandeur wide screen.
The film was so financially successful that it saved Warner Brothers from bankruptcy.
In one of the opening scenes, Bebe Daniels is reading the premiere issue of The New Yorker magazine, with its trademark top-hatted Manhattanite on the cover.
Ginger Rogers took the role of Anytime Annie at the urging of director Mervyn LeRoy, whom she was dating at the time.
Henry B. Walthall originally had a large role including a key scene in which he died on stage during rehearsals. Almost all of his scenes ended up on the cutting room floor.
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