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Name: Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Released: 1940-8-30
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field, Ralph Bellamy

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

NR
1h 30m
1940

83%

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Maureen O'Hara and Lucille Ball star as two dancers who move to New York City in search of careers in the ballet in Dance, Girl, Dance. Judy O'Brien (O'Hara--The Quiet Man) and Bubbles (Ball--"I Love Lucy") both start with big dreams, but Bubbles soon falls into a career in burlesque. And when O'Brien's ballet company fails, she resorts to a demeaning job working for Bubbles. But their tenuous friendship becomes all-out war when they both fall in love with the same man.

Director:

Dorothy Arzner

Producer:

Erich Pommer

Writer:

Frank Davis, Tess Slesinger, Vicki Baum

Cast:

Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field, Ralph Bellamy, Maria Ouspenskaya, Mary Carlisle

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

83%

Reviews

Elements of Madness

Douglas Davidson

With this release and its wonderful supplemental interviews, an opportunity is created to shed some light on a forgotten director and her work.

Not surprisingly, the scene where O'Hara's character directly lambasts an audience for its collective "male gaze" retains its topicality.

Arzner films it with fascination and enthusiasm, and the choreography is marked by the point of view of the spectators and the dancers' awareness that they're being watched.

The themes are female friendship and a woman's fulfillment, and it is one of Arzner's most coherent and accomplished films.

Arzner's internal critique of Hollywood ideology (woman as silent object of male scrutiny). It works within the confines of a stock vaudevillian golddiggers comedy-drama.

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Additional Info

Genre:Comedy, Drama
Release Date:August 30, 1940
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
Stereo

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