Dancing on a Dime
IT'S A MUSICAL METEOR!
1940 · 1h 14m · Approved
Comedy, Drama, Music
Directed by
Joseph Santley
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Joseph Santley Director
- 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
- William Frawley as Mac
- Charles Lane as Freeman Taylor
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