Dance, Girl, Dance
6.8 /10 1 Votes
Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama, Musical Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Dorothy ArznerJames Anderson (assistant) Release date August 30, 1940 (1940-08-30) Screenplay Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis Cast (Judy O'Brien), (Bubbles), (Jimmy Harris), (Elinor Harris), (Madame Lydia Basilova), (Steve Adams) Similar movies The Final Girls , Independence Day , Salt , The Boy Next Door , Crash , Pay the Ghost Tagline Heartbreak Behind Gayety of a Girly-Girl Show! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A burlesque queen (Lucille Ball) competes with an aspiring ballerina (Maureen OHara) for a divorced playboy (Louis Hayward).
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Dance, Girl, Dance is a film released in 1940 and directed by Dorothy Arzner.
In 2007, Dance, Girl, Dance was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", describing it as Arzners "most intriguing film" and a "meditation on the disparity between art and commerce. The dancers, played by Maureen OHara and Lucille Ball, strive to preserve their own feminist integrity, while fighting for their place in the spotlight and for the love of male lead Louis Hayward."
Dance, Girl, Dance was edited by Robert Wise, whose next film as editor was Citizen Kane and who later won Oscars as director of West Side Story and The Sound of Music.
Judy O'Brien (Maureen O'Hara) is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles (Lucille Ball), 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.
Plot
Good friends Judy and Bubbles are both dancers. Bubbles uses her good looks and being a sex siren to get jobs, and becomes successful in burlesque, while Judy is a elegant ballerina struggles to make a living as a dancer. A rivalry develops when they both fall in love with a divorced playboy.
Cast
Similar Movies
Lucille Ball appears in Dance - Girl - Dance and Too Many Girls. Lucille Ball appears in Dance - Girl - Dance and A Girl - a Guy - and a Gob. Dancers (1987). Dancing Lady (1933). The Unfinished Dance (1947).
Reception
In an October 1940 review, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times described the film as "a saga of glamour-struck chorines to end all sagas of said glamour-struck chorines" and a "cliche-ridden, garbled repetition of the story of the aches and pains in a dancers rise to fame and fortune." The film was a critical and commercial failure, and its theatrical release lost RKO Studios roughly $400,000.
Beginning in the 1970s, however, the film enjoyed a popular revival and critical reassessment. Its resurgence has been ascribed to the burgeoning feminist movement which saw the film as a rare example of empowered women. Critical praise for the film has endured – in 2002 Dance, Girl, Dance was listed among the Top 100 "Essential Films" of the National Society of Film Critics.
References
Dance, Girl, Dance WikipediaDance, Girl, Dance IMDb Dance, Girl, Dance themoviedb.org