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Director:
Writers:
Vicki Baum (story)
Frank Davis (writer)
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Release Date:
30 August 1940 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Heartbreak Behind Gayety of a Girly-Girl Show!
Plot:
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Maureen O'Hara ... Judy O'Brien
Louis Hayward ... Jaes 'Jimmy' Harris Jr.

Lucille Ball ... Bubbles / Tiger Lily White
Virginia Field ... Elinor Harris
Ralph Bellamy ... Steve Adams
Maria Ouspenskaya ... Madame Lydia Basilova
Mary Carlisle ... Sally
Katharine Alexander ... Miss Olmstead
Edward Brophy ... Dwarfie Humblewinger
Walter Abel ... Judge
Harold Huber ... Hoboken Gent
Ernest Truex ... Bailey #1
Chester Clute ... Bailey #2
Lorraine Krueger ... Dolly
Lola Jensen ... Daisy
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Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Recording System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #6247)

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Lucille Ball and 'Maureen O'Hara' became inseparable friends while filming Dance Girl, Dance, and became life-long friends afterward, up Till Ball's death in 1989. Maureen was having lunch with Lucille when Lucille first saw her future husband Desi Arnaz. more
Quotes:
Bubbles: Listen, squirt! I don't fall in gutters. I pick my spots. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie (1993) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Morning Star more

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Dance, Girl, 17 September 2005
9/10
Author: baron1-1 from United States

Dance, Girl, Dance, which sounds like a Joan Crawford movie, is not. It features superb dance sequences which exemplify the superior ballet technique and style of the '40s. Vivian Fay is outstanding. Lucille Ball is hot, girl, hot! Who knew our Lucy could be a burlesque queen and skillful dancer, not to mention Maureen O'Hara dancing her socks off with fine ballet technique. I don't think they used a dance double, or did they? I hope not. But who is this choreographer, hitherto unknown? What became of him? He did an excellent pastiche of Leonid Massine's ballets. Why do we have to write so many lines? Don't they know that pithy comments can say so much more? I think the movie dragged as it got soapy, but the emotion was convincing, and I could personally relate to the story of the ballet teacher very much. I had one just like her.

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