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Dancing on a Dime (1940)
Directed by Joseph Santley
“IT'S A MUSICAL METEOR!”
Drama, Music, Comedy · 1h 14m
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.
Cast
Robert Paige
Ted Brooks
Peter Lind Hayes
Dandy Joslyn
Eddie Quillan
Jack Norcross
Frank Jenks
Phil Miller
Grace McDonald
Lorie Fenton
Virginia Dale
Dolly Stewart
Carol Adams
Polly Adams
Lillian Cornell
Doris Marlowe
William Frawley
Mac
Charles Lane
Freeman Taylor
Wanda McKay
Lulu
Arthur Aylesworth
Joe Phillips
Crew
- Director
- Joseph Santley
- Screenplay
- Maurice Rapf, Allen Rivkin, Anne Morrison Chapin
- Director of Photography
- Charles Lang
- Original Music Composer
- Victor Young
- Editor
- Doane Harrison
- Producer
- A.M. Botsford
Details
- Release date
- 1940-11-01
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount Pictures