Dames (1934)

Directors:

Ray Enright
Busby Berkeley

Writers:

Robert Lord (story) &
Delmer Daves (story) ...

Release Date:

1 September 1934 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

Multi millinaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campain against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows...

Plot Keywords:

Show Girl | Inheritance | Subway | Beautiful Woman | Eccentric

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Joan Blondell	...	Mabel Anderson
Dick Powell	...	James 'Jimmy' Higgens
Ruby Keeler	...	Barbara Hemingway, aka Joan Grey
Zasu Pitts	...	Matilda Ounce Hemingway (misspelled Mathilda in opening credits)
Guy Kibbee	...	Horace Peter Hemingway
Hugh Herbert	...	Ezra Ounce
Arthur Vinton	...	Bulger, Ounce's Bodyguard
Phil Regan	...	Johnny Harris, Songwriter
Arthur Aylesworth	...	Train Conductor
Johnny Arthur	...	Billings, Ounce's Secretary
Leila Bennett	...	Laura, Matilda's Maid
Berton Churchill	...	Harold Ellsworthy Todd
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bess Flowers	...	(scenes deleted)

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:(Banned) (1936) | USA:Approved (PCA #103)

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Vitaphone Corporation, The

Trivia:

The studio wanted Broadway dancer Eleanor Powell for a special dance, but she refused the offer.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: While Joan Blondell is singing "The Girl at the Ironing Board", a stage hand is seen in the background hanging a clothesline.

Quotes:

Barbara Hemingway: I'm free, white, and 21. I love to dance AND I'm going to dance.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Ask the Dust (2006)

Soundtrack:

Shuffle Off to Buffalo

Simply Swell!

Great songs and production numbers make this snappy musical a must for fans

of 30s films. Great cast has Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Guy

Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Zasu Pitts, Leilah Bennett, Johnny Arthur, and Berton

Churchill in top form. Dick Powell sings "Dames" better than Harvey Fierstein! and Joan Blondell gets a couple numbers here: "The Girl at the Ironing Board" and a reprise of "Try to See It My Way, Baby." Ruby has only one dance number but sports Joan Crawford eyebrows! Pitts, Kibbee and Herbert are terrific in solid support of the stars. The Busby Berkley finale is one of his best as the "dames" go thru their paces in geometric patterns of leg art. The film's big song is "I Only Have Eyes for You" and is well done by Dick Powell----who is unjustly

underrated today.......