Dancing on a Dime Trailer

Dancing on a Dime Trailer (1940)

"IT'S A MUSICAL METEOR!" 01 November 1940 Drama, Comedy, Music 74 mins

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.

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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

Charles Lane

as Freeman Taylor

Arthur Aylesworth

as Joe Phillips

Crew

Victor Young

Original Music Composer

Edith Head

Edith Head Costume Design

Haldane Douglas

Haldane Douglas Art Direction

Hans Dreier

Hans Dreier Art Direction

Charles Lang

Charles Lang Director of Photography

International Releases Dates

United States 01 November 1940

Production Companies

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from Okeh 5801 78 rpm with Dick Jurgens and his orchestra Music by Burton Lane - Lyrics by Frank Loesser.

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