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CREDITS
1933, 94 minutes, B&W.
Producer, David O. Selznick; Director, Robert Z. Leonard; Screenplay, Allen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson; Cinematography, Oliver Marsh and Louis Silvers; Dance Direction, Sammy Lee and Eddie Printz.
CAST
Janie, Joan Crawford; Patch Gallegher, Clark Gable; Tod Newton, Franchot Tone; Mrs. Newton, May Robson; Rosette, Winnie Lightner; Fred, Fred Astaire; Ward King, Robert Benchley; Steve, Ted Healy; Art, Art Jarrett; Bradley, Sr., Grant Mitchell; Themselves, The Three Stooges; Nelson Eddy, Eunice Quedens.
SONGS
Everything I Have Is Yours; Heigh-Ho, the Gang's All Here; Let's Go Bavarian by Burton Lane and Harold Adamson; That's the Rhythm of the Day by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; Hold Your Man by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown; Hey Young Fella, Close Your Umbrella; My Dancing Lady by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
". . .the film tells the story of a Broadway-bound production - called Dancing Lady - from its inception to opening night. Here again is the ruthless director (Clark Gable), the wide-eyed chorus girl (Joan Crawford) who takes over the top spot from the show's aging star, and the wealthy backer (Franchot Tone) infatuated with the leading lady."
- Stanley Green, Hollywood Musicals Year By Year
NOTES
". . .the climactic production numbers are rather a mess, shinily expensive without any of [Busby] Berkeley's focus. Here then, was a demonstration that a musical film, even one with abundant financial success, needed more than money and star potency to account for its existence."
- Richard Barrios, A Song In The Dark
"Very potent b.o. in the screen musical cycle."
- Variety
This was Fred Astaire's film debut.
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