Dancing on a Dime
6.0
“IT'S A MUSICAL METEOR!”
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.
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Cast
28 people
Robert Paige
Ted Brooks
Known for
Son of Dracula
Hellzapoppin'
Peter Lind Hayes
Dandy Joslyn
Known for
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Charles Lang
Maurice Rapf
Joseph Santley
A.M. Botsford
Eddie Quillan
Jack Norcross
Known for
The Grapes of Wrath
Mutiny on the Bounty
Anne Morrison Chapin
Doane Harrison
Frank Jenks
Phil Miller
Known for
His Girl Friday
Woman on the Run
Edith Head
Allen Rivkin
Joseph Santley Director · Allen Rivkin Screenplay Maurice Rapf Screenplay
United States release November 1, 1940 · Produced in United States
Production
Paramount Pictures
Production · Distribution
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 1, 1940
Theatrical
Mexico
December 25, 1942
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