Dancing Lady
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| Dancing Lady | |
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| Image:Posterdancingus2.jpg Original film poster | |
| Directed by | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Produced by | John W. Considine Jr. David O. Selznick |
| Written by | James Warner Bellah Robert Benchley Allen Rivkin Zelda Sears P. J. Wolfson |
| Starring | Joan Crawford Clark Gable Franchot Tone Fred Astaire Robert Benchley Ted Healy Nelson Eddy Moe Howard Curly Howard Larry Fine |
| Music by | Louis Silvers |
| Cinematography | Oliver T. Marsh |
| Editing by | Margaret Booth |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | Image:Flag of the United States.svg November 24, 1933 |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | US |
| Language | English |
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Dancing Lady is a 1933 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone, as well as Robert Benchley, Nelson Eddy, Fred Astaire, and Ted Healy and his Stooges (Curly, Moe, and Larry).
The film features the screen debut of dancer Fred Astaire, who appears as himself and dances with Crawford, and also presents dancing robots which later appeared in the first Gene Autry serial, The Phantom Empire.
The movie also had a hit song, "Everything I Have Is Yours," by Burton Lane and Harold Adamson.
[edit] Plot
Janie "Duchess" Barlow is a poor, hard-working dancer in a Manhattan burlesque theater who is spotted by a high-society scion, Tod Newton, who falls in love with her. The theater is raided by the police, and Janie is arrested, and Tod pays her bail. However, she resists his gestures and promises to pay him back. Tod then helps her land an audition for a Broadway show. Patch Gallagher (Clark Gable) does not like Janie, but she perseveres and wins his begruding admiration. Eventually, she becomes the star of the show. Tod, who wants Janie to himself, buys the show so that he can close it. Janie and Patch, meanwhile, have fallen in love. They scrape together their savings and produce a show, which becomes a hit.
[edit] Cast
- Joan Crawford as Janie "Duchess" Barlow
- Clark Gable as Patch Gallagher
- Franchot Tone as Tod Newton
- May Robson as Dolly Todhunter
- Fred Astaire as Himself
- Robert Benchley as Ward King
- Ted Healy as Steve
- Nelson Eddy as Himself
- Sterling Holloway as Pinky
- Moe Howard as Stagehand
- Curly Howard as Heavyset stagehand
- Larry Fine as Stagehand/Pianist
[edit] External links
Feature films starring The Three Stooges |
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Soup to Nuts (1930) • Turn Back the Clock (1933) • Meet the Baron (1933) • Dancing Lady (1933) • Myrt and Marge (1933) • Fugitive Lovers (1934) • Hollywood Party (1934) • The Captain Hates the Sea (1934) • Start Cheering (1938) • Time Out for Rhythm (1941) • My Sister Eileen (1942) (Cameo) • Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943) (scenes deleted) • Rockin' in the Rockies (1945) • Swing Parade of 1946 (1946) • Gold Raiders (1951) • Columbia Laff Hour (1956) • Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959) • Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960) • Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961) • The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962) • The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962) • The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963) • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) (Cameo) • 4 for Texas (1963) (Cameo) • The Outlaws Is Coming (1965) • Kook's Tour (1970) |
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