Dancing on a Dime

November. 01,1940      NR
Rating:
6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

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Reviews

Protraph
1940/11/01

Lack of good storyline.

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Dotsthavesp
1940/11/02

I wanted to but couldn't!

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Rosie Searle
1940/11/03

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Geraldine
1940/11/04

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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