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Dancing Lady
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| Dancing Lady | |
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| Directed by | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Produced by | John W. Considine Jr. David O. Selznick |
| Written by | James Warner Bellah Robert Benchley Allen Rivkin Zelda Sears P. J. Wolfson |
| Starring | Joan Crawford Clark Gable |
| Music by | Louis Silvers |
| Cinematography | Oliver T. Marsh |
| Editing by | Margaret Booth |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) |  November 24, 1933 |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | US |
| Language | English |
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Dancing Lady is a 1933 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone, as well as Robert Benchley, Nelson Eddy, Fred Astaire, and Ted Healy and his Three Stooges.
The film features the acting debut of Fred Astaire, who appears as himself and dances with Crawford. It also featured dancing robots, which later appeared in the Gene Autry serial The Phantom Empire.
The film also had a hit song, "Everything I Have Is Yours," by Burton Lane and Harold Adamson.
Janie "Dutchess" Barlow is a poor, hard-working dancer in a Manhattan burlesque theater who is spotted by a high-society scion, Tod Newton, who falls in love with her. The theater is raided by the police, and Janie is arrested, and Tod pays her bail. However, she resists his gestures and promises to pay him back. Tod then helps her land an audition for a Broadway show. The director, Patch Gallagher, does not like Janie, but she perseveres and wins his begruding admiration. Eventually, she becomes the star of the show. Tod, who wants Janie to himself, buys the show so that he can close it. Janie and Patch, meanwhile, have fallen in love. They scrape together their savings and produce a show, which becomes a hit.
- Joan Crawford as Janie "Dutchess" Barlow
- Franchot Tone as Tod Newton
- Clark Gable as Patch Gallagher
- May Robson as Dolly Todhunter
- Fred Astaire as Himself
- Robert Benchley as Ward King
- Ted Healy as Steve
- Nelson Eddy as Himself
- Moe Howard as Stagehand
- Curly Howard as Heavyset stagehand
- Larry Fine as Stagehand/Pianist
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