Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

NR08/30/1940Drama, Comedy, Romance1h 30m
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Heartbreak Behind Gayety of a Girly-Girl Show!

Overview

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Maureen O'Hara

    Judy O'Brien

  2. Cast 1

    Louis Hayward

    Jimmy Harris

  3. Cast 1

    Lucille Ball

    Bubbles

  4. Cast 1

    Virginia Field

    Elinor Harris

  5. Cast 1

    Ralph Bellamy

    Steve Adams

  6. Cast 1

    Maria Ouspenskaya

    Madame Basilova

  7. Cast 1

    Mary Carlisle

    Sally

  8. Cast 1

    Katharine Alexander

    Miss Olmstead

  9. Cast 1

    Edward Brophy

    Dwarfie

A really fun film that I found in my Maureen O'Hara TCM 4-pack that I highly recommend if you enjoy films from that era. I like the two films I've seen so far from Arzner, who was one of the earliest and most successful of female directors and I believe the first openly lesbian one--the other work I've seen of hers is the great pre-Code look at alcoholism, 'Merrily We Go to Hell'. This is great if you either like musicals from the era, are a Maureen O'Hara or Lucille Ball enthusiast (holy, she was unbelievably a knockout in her early filmic days!) or are simply curious about the works of ea...