Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company ...
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Maureen O'Hara | ... | Judy O'Brien | |
| Louis Hayward | ... | Jimmy Harris | |
| Lucille Ball | ... | Bubbles | |
| 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 | |
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Lola Jensen | ... | Daisy |
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Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
30 August 1940 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Vida é uma Dança See more »Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Recording System) (as R C A Recording System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Music by Edward Ward
Lyrics by Chet Forrest (as Chester Forrest) and Bob Wright (as Robert Wright)
Sung by Lucille Ball in the Bailey Brothers Burlesque Theater (uncredited)
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This film is included in the book "1001 Movies You Need to See Before You Die", edited by Steven Jay Schneider. See more »Soundtracks
Jitterbug BiteMusic by Edward Ward
Lyrics by Chet Forrest (as Chester Forrest) and Bob Wright (as Robert Wright)
Sung by Lucille Ball in the Bailey Brothers Burlesque Theater (uncredited)
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A really fun film that I found in my Maureen O'Hara TCM 4-pack that I highly recommend if you enjoy films from that era. I like the two films I've seen so far from Arzner, who was one of the earliest and most successful of female directors and I believe the first openly lesbian one--the other work I've seen of hers is the great pre-Code look at alcoholism, 'Merrily We Go to Hell'.
This is great if you either like musicals from the era, are a Maureen O'Hara or Lucille Ball enthusiast (holy, she was unbelievably a knockout in her early filmic days!) or are simply curious about the works of early female and/or lesbian directors. Arzner--at least in the two films I have seen from her thus far--showed she truly deserved to be successful in the industry.