Dancing on a Dime
Dancing on a Dime
Release: 1940-11-01
·Runtime: 74m
·★ 4.5
Drama
Music
Comedy
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Peter Lind Hayes
as Dandy Joslyn
Carol Adams
as Polly Adams
Lillian Cornell
as Doris Marlowe
William Frawley
as Mac
Charles Lane
as Freeman Taylor
Arthur Aylesworth
as Joe Phillips
Robert Paige
as Ted Brooks
Eddie Quillan
as Jack Norcross
Frank Jenks
as Phil Miller
Grace McDonald
as Lorie Fenton
Virginia Dale
as Dolly Stewart
Wanda McKay
as Lulu
