For a giggle, I offer Amazon.com's synopsis for the upcoming DVD release of "Gold Diggers of 1933":
"Barneny Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. Everybody is sitting on the street and due to depression there is no possibility for the three chorus girls Carol, Trixie and Polly. But they hear rumors, that Hopkins is producing a new show, they invite him and he promises to give them work - when he found a backer to produce it. He hears the tunes of the composer next door, Brad Roberts, Pollys friend. Brad joins them and is backing the show. On opening night he takes over for the juvenile lead, who suffers from lumbago. Roberts has been very puplicity-shy, because he belongs to a wealthy upperclass family from Boston. When his family notices what he is doing, his brother Lawrence and their attorney Peabody come to New York, to end his relation with Polly. But he mistakes Carol for Polly, who does not correct his mistake. Lawrence decides to separate Polly from Brad by drawing her love on himself. But soon he realizes, that he is really in love with that chorus girl."
My favorite sentence is underlined above. All my young adult life, I wanted to take over the lead from an actor who suffered from lumbago.
It was my aspiration...my all...my everything.
And yet...I've never been within 100 miles of a lumbago clinic!
(There are obvious typos in the synopsis. Oddly enough. Amazon PAYS someone to write them...and the other synopses (synopsi?) for the "other" DVDs in the upcoming Busby Berkeley box are even worse...side-splittingly so).