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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
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26 November 1975 (France) morePlot:
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Nominated for Golden Globe. moreUser Comments:
original and outstanding use of archive film material moreCast
(Credited cast) | Laverne Andrews | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Maxene Andrews | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Patty Andrews | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
 | Fred Astaire | ... | (archive footage) |
| Warner Baxter | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Jack Benny | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Busby Berkeley | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Willie Best | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Humphrey Bogart | ... | (archive footage) |
 | James Cagney | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Cab Calloway | ... | (archive footage) |
| Eddie Cantor | ... | (archive footage) |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | ... | (archive footage) |
| George Chandler | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Charles Chaplin | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Winston Churchill | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Betty Compson | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Gary Cooper | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Bing Crosby | ... | (archive footage) |
| Frankie Darro | ... | (archive footage) |
| Cecil B. DeMille | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Marlene Dietrich | ... | (archive footage) |
| John Dillinger | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Walt Disney | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| James Dunn | ... | (archive footage) |
| Cliff Edwards | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Bill Elliott | ... | (archive footage) |
| Madge Evans | ... | (archive footage) |
| Stepin Fetchit | ... | (archive footage) |
 | W.C. Fields | ... | (archive footage) |
| Dick Foran | ... | (archive footage) |
| Gerald Ford | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Clark Gable | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Benny Goodman | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Cary Grant | ... | (archive footage) |
| Woody Guthrie | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | George 'Gabby' Hayes | ... | (archive footage) |
| Billie Holiday | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Herbert Hoover | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| J. Edgar Hoover | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Bob Hope | ... | (archive footage) |
| William Hopper | ... | (archive footage) (as DeWolf Hopper Jr.) |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Walter Huston | ... | (archive footage) |
| Lyndon Johnson | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Al Jolson | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Ruby Keeler | ... | (archive footage) |
| Jacqueline Kennedy | ... | (archive footage) |
 | John F. Kennedy | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Hedy Lamarr | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Vivien Leigh | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
 | Carole Lombard | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Huey Long | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Joe Louis | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Douglas MacArthur | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Fredric March | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Chico Marx | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Groucho Marx | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Harpo Marx | ... | (archive footage) |
| Grant Mitchell | ... | (archive footage) |
| Fayard Nicholas | ... | (archive footage) |
| Harold Nicholas | ... | (archive footage) |
| Pat Nixon | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Richard Nixon | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Dick Powell | ... | (archive footage) |
 | George Raft | ... | (archive footage) |
| Paul Robeson | ... | (archive footage) |
| Dewey Robinson | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Will Rogers | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | James Stewart | ... | (archive footage) |
 | Shirley Temple | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Harry S. Truman | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Rudy Vallee | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | John Wayne | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Orson Welles | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Harlow Wilcox | ... | (archive footage) |
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Referenced in "Hill Street Blues: Buddy, Can You Spare a Heart? (#3.21)" (1983) moreSoundtrack:
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this is an extraordinary use of both documentary and archive newsreel to tell a story of the depression era in the USA. No naration, the film speaks for itself. The use of Jimmy Cagney as a running character is great. Fascinating and amusing.