Dancing Lady
The Scenes Are Enthralling! The Electrical Ballet! Girls in Cellophane! Mirrors of Venus! Merry-Go-Round Girls
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- Comedy
- Romance
- Music
Overview
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
Keywords
- new york city
- based on novel or book
- musical
- great depression
- jail
- dancing
- black and white
- dancer
- manhattan
- determination
- singing
- marriage proposal
- theater director
- rich man
- tap dancing
- police raid
- striptease
- beautiful woman
- choreographer
- burlesque
- pre-code
- stage show
- broadway show
- manipulated woman
- dancing girls
- revue
- merry go round
- manipulative male lead
- rehearsal space
- uptown
- night court
- dance practice
- financial backer
- dance rehearsal
- manhattan, new york city
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 24, 1933
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cast
- Joan Crawford,Clark Gable,Franchot Tone,May Robson,Winnie Lightner,Fred Astaire,Robert Benchley,Ted Healy,Art Jarrett,Grant Mitchelland 13 more
- Director
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Writer
- Allen Rivkin,P.J. Wolfson,James Warner Bellah,Arthur Freed,Harold Adamson,Dorothy Fields,Lorenz Hart
- Producer
- David O. Selznick
- Cinematography
- Oliver T. Marsh
- Budget
- $923,055
- Revenue
- $2,400,000
- IMDb
- tt0023926