Dancing on a Dime
movie
IT'S A MUSICAL METEOR!
Released November 01, 1940
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.
Cast
Robert Paige
as
Ted Brooks
Peter Lind Hayes
as
Dandy Joslyn
Eddie Quillan
as
Jack Norcross
Frank Jenks
as
Phil Miller
Grace McDonald
as
Lorie Fenton
Virginia Dale
as
Dolly Stewart
Carol Adams
as
Polly Adams
Lillian Cornell
as
Doris Marlowe
William Frawley
as
Mac
Charles Lane
as
Freeman Taylor
Wanda McKay
as
Lulu
Arthur Aylesworth
as
Joe Phillips
Crew
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A.M. Botsford
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Producer
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Doane Harrison
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Editor
Victor Young
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Original Music Composer
Edith Head
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Costume Design
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Maurice Rapf
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Screenplay
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Allen Rivkin
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Screenplay
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Haldane Douglas
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Art Direction
Joseph Santley
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Director
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Hans Dreier
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Art Direction
Charles Lang
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Director of Photography
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Anne Morrison Chapin
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Screenplay
Burton Lane
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Songs