{"id":151,"date":"2011-10-03T16:50:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/?p=151"},"modified":"2011-12-21T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T14:42:06","slug":"gold-diggers-of-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/2011\/10\/gold-diggers-of-1933\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Diggers of 1933"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the clip we watched in class today, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.com\/mediaroom\/video\/274289\/Gold-Diggers-of-1933-Movie-Clip-Forgotten-Man.html\">here&#8217;s a link<\/a> to more clips of the film, including its original trailer and some of the other big Broadway-type numbers embedded into the story &#8211; which concerns efforts to stage a successful play in hard times. The actress is Joan Blondell, and the wonderful African-American blues singer is Etta Moten. If you&#8217;re interested in more on the culture (literature, art, film and radio) of the 1930s, I highly recommend Morris Dickstein, <i>Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression<\/i> (Norton, 2009). <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"325\" id=\"ep\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/v5cache\/TCM\/cvp\/container\/mediaroom_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=274289\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/v5cache\/TCM\/cvp\/container\/mediaroom_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=274289\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the clip we watched in class today, and here&#8217;s a link to more clips of the film, including its original trailer and some of the other big Broadway-type numbers embedded into the story &#8211; which concerns efforts to stage a successful play in hard times. The actress is Joan Blondell, and the wonderful African-American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class","tag-fall11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}