The Gang’s All Here - Busby Berkeley

The singular Busby Berkeley’s first film in Technicolor, The Gang’s All Here is arguably the greatest — and most insanely ludicrous — of Berkeley’s later efforts. A hallucinatory excursion into spectacular visuals, mad choreography, and great music. Starring the lovely Alice Faye as a sad-eyed showgirl who’s being courted by a furloughed soldier who’s already spoken for. Their rocky romance provides the narrative backdrop for Berkeley’s visionary song-and-dance numbers, with most famously the scandalous The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat in which Carmen Miranda, leads a corps of banana-wielding dancers.