Quotes from the film:

Lee: “Anytime Annie?  Say, who could forget her?  She only said no once and then she didn’t hear the question…”

Chorus: “Naughty, bawdy, gaudy, sporty… 42nd Street!”

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!”

Song, ‘Shuffle off to Buffalo’:

            “Now that we have had the rice and flowers,
            The knot is tied;
            I can visu’lise such happy hours,
            Close by your side.
            The honeymoon in store,
            Is one that you’ll adore,
            I’m gonna take you for a ride.

            I’ll go home and get my panties,
            You go home and get your scanties,
            And away we’ll go.
            Mm mmm mmm…
            Off we’re going to shuffle,
            Shuffle off to Buffalo.

            Matrimony is baloney,
            She’ll be wanting alimony,
            In a year or so,
            Still they go and shuffle,
            Shuffle off to Buffalo…”

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Year: 1933
Studio: Warner
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