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Dance Hall

  • 19411941
  • 1h 12m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
68
YOUR RATING
Cesar Romero and Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)
ComedyMusicalRomance
Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
68
YOUR RATING
    • Irving Pichel
    • Stanley Rauh(screenplay)
    • Ethel Hill(screenplay)
    • W.R. Burnett(novel "Giant Swing")
  • Stars
    • Carole Landis
    • Cesar Romero
    • William Henry
    • Irving Pichel
    • Stanley Rauh(screenplay)
    • Ethel Hill(screenplay)
    • W.R. Burnett(novel "Giant Swing")
  • Stars
    • Carole Landis
    • Cesar Romero
    • William Henry
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 5User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)
    Cesar Romero, Carole Landis, and Shimen Ruskin in Dance Hall (1941)
    Cesar Romero and Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)
    Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)
    Cesar Romero and Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)
    Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)
    Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)
    Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)
    Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)
    Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)
    Cesar Romero and Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)
    Cesar Romero and Carole Landis in Dance Hall (1941)

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    Carole Landis
    Carole Landis
    • Lily Brown
    Cesar Romero
    Cesar Romero
    • Duke McKay
    William Henry
    William Henry
    • Joe Brooks
    June Storey
    June Storey
    • Ada
    J. Edward Bromberg
    J. Edward Bromberg
    • Max Brandon
    Charles Halton
    Charles Halton
    • Mr. Frederick Newmeyer
    Shimen Ruskin
    Shimen Ruskin
    • Charles 'Limpy' Larkin
    William Haade
    William Haade
    • Moon
    Trudi Marsdon
    • Vivian
    Russ Clark
    Russ Clark
    • Cook
    Frank Fanning
    Frank Fanning
    • Turnkey
    Bonnie Bannon
    Bonnie Bannon
    • Woman
    • (uncredited)
    Jewel McGowan
    • Dancer
    • (uncredited)
      • Irving Pichel
      • Stanley Rauh(screenplay)
      • Ethel Hill(screenplay)
      • W.R. Burnett(novel "Giant Swing")
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    • Soundtracks
      There's Something in the Air
      Music by Jimmy McHugh

      Lyrics by Harold Adamson

      Performed by Carole Landis (uncredited)

    User reviews5

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    9/10
    A Solid Slice of Early 40s America!
    This is a terrific film. No masterpiece of film making, just lots of entertainment value and fun.

    Sharpie dude Cesar Romero is the manager of a dance hall in an amusement park in Pennsylvania back in 1941. He drives a snazzy convertible car and spends the rest of his time punching out troublemakers at the dance hall, dancing and flirting with pretty girls to big Swing bands and gambling with his buddies. What a great life! Into the dance hall one night walks delicious singer Carole Landis. Romero is hooked from the moment he sees her.

    Romero's nice guy buddy Joe plays the piano and leads the band at the dance hall with Romero keeping an eye out for his welfare in life. In the meantime, Joe has eyes for the cutie pie waitress in the restaurant of the hotel that everyone there seems to live in.

    Landis begins her gig at the dance hall with a nice dissolve from her rehearsing one afternoon with Joe at the piano with her wearing ordinary street clothes to a sweet crane shot of her in a glamorous gown standing in front of a big band playing a Glenn Miller style ballad. All the boys and men in the house go gaa gaa over her as they ogle her while she sings "There's Something In the Air".

    Landis keeps resisting Romero's advances and winds up walking home one evening along a country road after she and Romero have had a spat. Along comes nice guy Max and gives her a ride back to town. He's smitten, too.

    The rest of the film revolves around more of the same plot and the picture is about as entertaining a "B" film as you could ever hope to see.

    Lots of fine music from the beginning with the band playing some generic Swing number as crowds of people swarm into the dance hall.

    There are any number of 'plug tunes' from other 20th Century-Fox pictures of the moment, as well as some nice Lindy Hopping by noted dancers Dean Collins and Jewel McGowan in what may be their only speaking roles on film - "Shoot the torso to me, Toots!" and "What are you, a chiropractor, anyway?" Immortality!

    For what this film is and it's total lack of pretension, I rate it a nine out of ten.

    If you enjoyed the Glenn Miller film ORCHESTRA WIVES (which featured both Romero and Landis, btw), you will likely enjoy DANCE HALL, too, for they both have that very mellow early 1940s ambiance of an America now long vanished.
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    • Release date
      • January 14, 1942 (Mexico)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • 1 hour 12 minutes
      • Black and White

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