Rating: NR
Genre: Romance
Theatrical Release: 11/24/1933(USA)
Release Date: 06/20/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video

Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as Janie Barlow, an impoverished dancer reduced to working in a seedy Manhattan burlesque house. While on a slumming party with his society friend, wealthy young Tod Newton (Franchot Tone) spots Janie in the burleycue chorus line and immediately falls in love with her. When the joint is raided, Tod pays Janie's bail, but she resists his entreaties to become his mistress, promising instead to pay back every cent she owes him "honestly." With Tod's help, Janie is able to secure work in a big-time Broadway musical being staged by Patch Gallegher (Clark Gable), who is certain that the girl is an untalented opportunist and does everything he can to sabotage her audition. When he realizes that the girl "has something," he refuses to admit it but does, grudgingly, hire her for the show. Through a combination of skill and damned hard work, Janie ends up as the star of the show, whereupon Tod, worried that he'll lose the girl to the Great White Way, buys the show and promptly closes it. But Janie, who's fallen in love with Patch, teams with her new sweetheart to restage the show with their own meager savings -- and surprise of surprises, it's a smash hit. Truly an embarrassment of riches, Dancing Lady introduced Fred Astaire to the movie-going public, solidified the popularity of MGM's new tenor Nelson Eddy, and offered a wide berth for the comedy antics of Ted Healy and his Three Stooges -- Moe Howard, Curly Howard and Larry Fine (Larry, performing his role in a Jewish dialect, has a wonderful double-take bit with a jigsaw puzzle which turns out to be a portrait of Adolf Hitler). As a bonus, the film offers spectacular musical production numbers, not to mention the enduring song hit "Everything I Have is Yours."

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Joan Crawford - Janie Barlow
Clark Gable - Patch Gallagher
Franchot Tone - Tod Newton
May Robson - Dolly Todhunter
Winnie Lightner - Rosette Henrietta La Rue
Fred Astaire - Himself
Robert Benchley - Ward King
Ted Healy - Steve
Gloria Foy - Vivian Warner
Art Jarrett - Art
Grant Mitchell - Jasper Bradley, Sr.
Maynard Holmes - Jasper Bradley, Jr.
Nelson Eddy - Himself
Curly Howard - Stooge #1
Moe Howard - Stooge #2
Larry Fine - Stooge #3/Pianist
Sterling Holloway - Pinky the Author
Jean Howard - Girl in Tod's Entourage
Pat Somerset - Tod's Friend
Charles Williams - Man Arrested in Burlesque House
Charles Sullivan - Cabby
Larry Steers - First Nighter
C. Montague Shaw - First Nighter
John Sheehan - Author's Pal
Charles Wilson - Club Manager
Matt McHugh - Marcia's Agent
William "Wild Bill" Elliott - Cafe Extra
Ferdinand Gottschalk - Judge
Frank S. Hagney - Cop

Production:
Robert Z. Leonard - Director
David O. Selznick - Producer
Harold Adamson Nacio Herb Brown Dorothy Fields Arthur Freed Lorenz Hart Burton Lane Jimmy McHugh Richard Rodgers Louis Silvers - Composer
Margaret Booth - Editor
Alan Rivkin Zelda Sears P.J. Wolfson - Screen Writer
Cedric Gibbons Edwin B. Willis Henry Oliver - Set Designer
Cedric Gibbons - Art Director
Harry Oliver - Art Director
John W. Considine, Jr. - Associate Producer
Eddie Prinz - Choreography
LeRoy J. Prinz - Choreography
Sammy Lee - Choreography
Oliver Marsh - Cinematographer
Adrian - Costume Designer
Louis Silvers - Musical Direction/Supervision
Merrill Pye - Production Designer
Slavko Vorkapich - Special Effects
James Warner Bellah - Book Author

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