Dancing on a Dime

"IT'S A MUSICAL METEOR!"

Nov 1 1940 Approved 1h 14m
Comedy, Drama, Music

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.

Plot

From Wikipedia: "Dancing on a Dime" is a 1940 Paramount Pictures movie directed by Joseph Santley about five actors and dancers putting on a show while living in a theatre. It is adapted from a novel of the same name written by Do...

Written by

Maurice Rapf, Anne Morrison Chapin, Allen Rivkin

Directed by

Joseph Santley

Cast

Grace McDonald, Robert Paige, Virginia Dale

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Paramount

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
43
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA