Review of Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) by Justin R — 13 Apr 2010

A shopping we will go, a shopping we will go, hi-ho the derry-o, to spend your mother's doe! Would you look at that? A change to the regular female lineup. Highlights include the competition over honorariums, the erotic manner in which Arline eats her apple, Humbolt's inability to do fractions, trying to check into the hotel at the cigar counter, snuff box germicide, blackmail over a haughty stenographer who blackmails everybody back, valuable social contacts, Ann's $12,000+ outfit that takes up a whole bed, indignant Russian dine-and-dasher Nicoleff, a spin on the classic romantic evening in a car by placing the couple in a speedboat, pirouetting pianos that undulate against one another like a zipper before interlocking to form a stage platform, tap-skidding, and a priceless solid silver fruit dish.

'I got to hand it to you mother, it takes a lot of nerve to give four boys a quarter for carrying up sixteen pieces of baggage.'.