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CULTURE CANDY

The context of this video: It's 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression. Gold Diggers of 1933 -- one of a series of Gold Diggers movies -- opens in May of that year starring Ginger Rogers, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Aline MacMahon as four chorus girls trying to make it any way they can. These are desperate times, and it's hard to even get a show funded at all, let alone find work. But our ladies are plucky, not to mention talented, and you know they have a trick or two up their sleeves.

I'll not spoil the plot for you, but basically, this is a musical from the Depression about making a musical about the Depression. And this -- this! -- is the opening number, with Ginger Rogers singing "We're in the Money" in Pig Latin (YES I am serious!) with some giant fake coins barely covering her business. What a way to open a movie.