Dancing on a Dime

Dancing on a Dime

5 | 1940-11-01 | Drama Music Comedy

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.

Featured Crew

A.M. Botsford Producer
Doane Harrison Editor
Victor Young Original Music Composer
Edith Head Costume Design
Maurice Rapf Screenplay
Allen Rivkin Screenplay
Haldane Douglas Art Direction
Joseph Santley Director
Hans Dreier Art Direction
Charles Lang Director of Photography

Cast

Robert Paige
Robert Paige
Ted Brooks
Peter Lind Hayes
Peter Lind Hayes
Dandy Joslyn
Eddie Quillan
Eddie Quillan
Jack Norcross
Frank Jenks
Frank Jenks
Phil Miller
Grace McDonald
Grace McDonald
Lorie Fenton
Virginia Dale
Virginia Dale
Dolly Stewart
Carol Adams
Carol Adams
Polly Adams
Lillian Cornell
Lillian Cornell
Doris Marlowe
Charles Lane
Charles Lane
Freeman Taylor

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