Floradora Girl, The hell King Louis XV

King Louis XV

John Arvonio shot footage for this stunning pattern film of New York City at night over a five-year period

To avoid fainting

With turbulent emotions swirling just below the surface

With clever writing

Floradora Girl, The hell King Louis XVSet decades before the brassy, bustling contemporary Busby Berkeley musicals to follow three years later, 1930's period pre code musical The Florodora Girl might also be called Gold Diggers of 1900. Sharpie showgirls of the Florodora Sextette cast their nets wide for rich husbands while advising (with plummy double entendre aplomb) their beau less chorus mate Daisy Dell (radiant Marion Davies) in the finer points of man trapping. Making a beach party