Bring up Golden Age Hollywood filmmaker Busby Berkeley, and most people conjure his staging of elaborate, kaleidoscopic dance numbers in such films as “Dames” and “Footlight Parade,” Ginger Rogers ...

During the Depression Era, Hollywood’s grandiose productions brought infinite comfort to the American public. One of the greats of this era was Busby Berkely, the visionary choreographer, famous for ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. (Original story by Patricia Gay for The Weston Forum.) A biopic and stage play ...

Technically, of course, each of the 1930s movies that features the astounding work of legendary choreographer Busby Berkeley qualifies as a musical. But you could also think of them as suspense movies ...

Warner Bros. has optioned Jeffrey Spivak's Busby Berkeley biography as a potential starring vehicle for Ryan Gosling, who will produce the film with his “Drive” collaborator Marc Platt, an individual ...

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Ryan Gosling (inset) is considering playing director and choreographer Busby Berkeley, who directed the 1934 flick "Dames" (main). Getty Images; Everett Collection The week’s most surprising movie ...

The real stars of Busby Berkeley musicals aren’t Ginger Rogers or Dick Powell or even Carmen Miranda. They’re Busby Berkeley. The ideal Busby number goes something like this: Two matinee idols actors ...

Warner Bros. has optioned the biography Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley, written by Jeffrey Spivak. THR reports Ryan Gosling and Marc Platt (Drive) will produce. They are developing the ...

“I always named ‘em the Berkeley Girls, and no one picked any girls but me. I picked ‘em all. Always.” Busby Berkeley’s voice rumbled like a semi-active volcano. “Once a producer came up to me and ...

Few remember the men who directed the Warner Bros. talkies of the early 1930s, and yet choreographer Busby Berkeley remains a legend some 70 years later. Warner's new "Busby Berkeley Collection" ...

Having recently portrayed a getaway driver, a bank robber, a loose-cannon cop and an expat gangster, it’s only logical that Ryan Gosling’s next role could be … Busby Berkeley? The star of “Drive” and ...