Dancing Lady (1933)

Directed by

Robert Z. Leonard

Genre

musical film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy playboy helps a dancer climb from nightclubs to a Broadway show. She must choose between him and the show's demanding director.

fast-pacedglamorousupbeatwhimsicalbreezylightheartedromantictheatrical

What happens

Dancing Lady is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and featuring Franchot Tone, Fred Astaire, Robert Benchley, and Ted Healy and his Stooges (later the Three Stooges). The picture was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by John W. Considine Jr., and 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 film 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' best-known lineup—Moe, Curly, and Larry—in support of the leader of their act at the time, Ted Healy, whose role in the film is considerably larger than theirs. Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley plays a supporting role. In the original film, Larry Fine completes a jigsaw puzzle, only to discover to his disgust that it is a picture of Adolf Hitler. This was ordered removed by the Production Code censors before the film was released to theaters, because they claimed it was an insult to a foreign head of state. The scene was restored to the TV release, but not to the video release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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