books.google.co.uk - As Hollywood entered the sound era, it was rightly determined that the same public fascinated by the novelty of the talkie would be dazzled by the spectacle of a song and dance film. In 1929 and 1930, film musicals became the industry's most lucrative genre--until the greedy studios almost killed the...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_First_Hollywood_Musicals.html?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&q=%22gold+diggers+of+broadway%22+worldwide&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe First Hollywood Musicals
