Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936), 7

When two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life.
(101 min) Released 1936-12-26
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Victor Moore, Lee Dixon
Busby Berkeley ... musical numbers created and directed by,
dance director; Oscar nom'd for "Love and War" [Oscars 1937]

Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027686/

DP has a slightly larger mustache than last time (Stage Struck). He and JB play love interests here, and may have been newlyweds during filming, which began in July according to this. (Married 19 Sept; movie released 28 Dec.) That makes it extra cute when JB helps DP shaving, and threatens his mustache for a moment.

BB steps back from full director role to dance director, and wins back my heart in the Oscar nom'd number. More below.

This is a nice variant on backstage musicals. Jane Wyman is a 'chorus girl' in the credits again, but I didn't spot her.

The Rundown:

• Sc 1: With Plenty of Money and You. DP sings, in closeup to us, before credits.
• Sc 2: Life Insurance Song. Sung by DP at sales convention.
• Sc 7: Speaking of the Weather. Sung by DP to JB while whirling around an office.
• Sc 12: With Plenty of Money and You. DP sings to JB on stoop of her aptmt bldg. 
• Sc 17: Let's Put Our Heads Together. Formal party by the pool, tennis courts, passes song from principals to other attendees, transforms into...
• Sc 18: With Plenty of Money and You.  Danced by Lee Dixon on the tennis courts. 
• Sc 25 of 25: All's Fair in Love and War. 11 mins of BB joy with giant rocking chairs, black reflective and non-reflective floors, black pedestals where girls can swing their long flag poles past their feet. Worthy of the Oscar nom, and recognizable as BB if taken out of context and stripped of the movie's stars to reduce the hints that it's BB.

Accidentally ran across this chain of trivia: Broadway and film actor Osgood Perkins (here plays Morty Wethered, part of the duo manipulating events), died the next year of a heart attack at age 45, was the father of only child Anthony Perkins (1932-92), who died of AIDS and was survived by wife Berry Berenson (sister of actress Marisa) and 2 sons. Berry died in the first plane to crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center 9/11/2001. That's a lot of real-life drama in 2 generations.

from https://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2keelr1.htm

Continuing with tragic real-life: Lee Dixon (b. 1910, or 1914? in Wikipedia), our new-to-feature-film tapping star, died in 1953 from alcoholism. He played Will Parker in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma! in 1943. Movie credits: 4 short films, 4 musical films in '36 & '37, plus a western in '47. Just because IMDb doesn't have a good picture of him, here's one I found, likely related to his next film, Ready, Willing and Able ('37).

Warner, dir. Bacon; 7

My post on Oscar, Best Dance Direction, 1936-38