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Dancing on a Dime

5.0 / 10 5.0 1940 1h 14mNR
DramaMusicComedy

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.

Directed by Joseph Santley

CAST

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Robert Paige
Robert PaigeTed Brooks
Peter Lind Hayes
Peter Lind HayesDandy Joslyn
Eddie Quillan
Eddie QuillanJack Norcross
Frank Jenks
Frank JenksPhil Miller
Grace McDonald
Grace McDonaldLorie Fenton
Virginia Dale
Virginia DaleDolly Stewart
Carol Adams
Carol AdamsPolly Adams
Lillian Cornell
Lillian CornellDoris Marlowe
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