Dancing on a Dime (1940)
1h 14m
Running Time
November 1, 1940Release Date
Dancing on a Dime (1940)
1h 14m
Running Time
November 1, 1940Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Grace McDonald
Lorie Fenton
Eddie Quillan
Jack Norcross
Robert Paige
Ted Brooks
Frank Jenks
Phil Miller
Virginia Dale
Dolly Stewart
Peter Lind Hayes
Dandy Joslyn
Joseph Santley
Director
Maurice Rapf
Writer
Carol Adams
Polly Adams
Anne Morrison Chapin
Writer
Lillian Cornell
Doris Marlowe
Allen Rivkin
Writer
William Frawley
Mac
Charles Lane
Freeman Taylor
Max Kolpé
Writer
Wanda McKay
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Dancing on a Dime is a 1940 Paramount Pictures movie directed by Joseph Santley about five actors and dancers putting on a show while living in a theatre. It is adapted from a novel of the same name written by Dorothy Young, which itself is based loosely on her own life. It starred Robert Paige, Peter Lind Hayes, Eddie Quillan, Frank Jenks, and Grace McDonald. It is known for its song, I Hear Music.