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Release Date: 1933 Cast: Robert Benchley, Curly Howard, Moe Howard, Nelson Eddy, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire, Ted Healy, Sterling Holloway, Larry Fine ...MORE
Cast: Robert Benchley, Curly Howard, Moe Howard, Nelson Eddy, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire, Ted Healy, Sterling Holloway, Larry Fine, Clark Gable ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Backstage Musical, Black-and-white, Comedy, Musical, Pre-Code, Romance Film Dancing Lady is a 1933 musical film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and featuring Franchot Tone, the fourth of eight collaborations between Crawford and Gable. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by John W. Considine Jr. and David O. Selznick, and was based on the novel of the same name by James Warner Bellah, published the previous year. The movie had a hit song in "Everything I Have Is Yours," by Burton Lane and Harold Adamson.
The picture features the screen debut of dancer Fred Astaire, who appears as himself, as well as the first credited film appearance of Nelson... MORE
Dancing Lady is a 1933 musical film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and featuring Franchot Tone, the fourth of eight collaborations between Crawford and Gable. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by John W. Considine Jr. and David O. Selznick, and was based on the novel of the same name by James Warner Bellah, published the previous year. The movie had a hit song in "Everything I Have Is Yours," by Burton Lane and Harold Adamson.
The picture features the screen debut of dancer Fred Astaire, who appears as himself, as well as the first credited film appearance of Nelson Eddy, and an early feature film appearance of the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Curly Howard, and Larry Fine) in support of their then-partner Ted Healy, who has a larger role in the movie; the quartet is billed as "Ted Healy and His Stooges." At the other end of the comedy scale, cultured Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley plays a supporting role.
Janie Barlow (Joan Crawford) is a young dancer who is reduced to stripping in a burlesque show. Arrested for indecent exposure, she's bailed out by millionaire playboy Tod Newton (Franchot Tone), who was attracted to her while slumming at the LESS
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