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Dancing on a Dime (1940)

Dancing on a Dime (1940)

Drama Comedy Music

IT'S A MUSICAL METEOR!

Release Date: 1940, November 1
Directors: Joseph Santley
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Charles Lane, William Frawley, Frank Jenks, Eddie Quillan, Arthur Aylesworth, Grace McDonald, Robert Paige, Peter Lind Hayes, Carol Adams, Virginia Dale, Wanda McKay, Lillian Cornell

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

musical