Dancing on a Dime (1940)
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.
Director:
Joseph Santley
Writers:
Allen Rivkin, Maurice Rapf, Anne Morrison Chapin.
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Robert Paige as Ted Brooks |
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Peter Lind Hayes as Dandy Joslyn |
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Eddie Quillan as Jack Norcross |
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Frank Jenks as Phil Miller |
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Grace McDonald as Lorie Fenton |
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Virginia Dale as Dolly Stewart |
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Carol Adams as Polly Adams |
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Lillian Cornell as Doris Marlowe |
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William Frawley as Mac |
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Charles Lane as Freeman Taylor |
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Wanda McKay as Lulu |
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Arthur Aylesworth as Joe Phillips |
| Directing | Joseph Santley | Director |
| Writing | Allen Rivkin | Screenplay |
| Writing | Maurice Rapf | Screenplay |
| Production | A.M. Botsford | Producer |
| Sound | Victor Young | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Doane Harrison | Editor |
| Art | Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| Art | Haldane Douglas | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edith Head | Costume Design |
| Camera | Charles Lang | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Anne Morrison Chapin | Screenplay |
| Sound | Burton Lane | Songs |
| Sound | Victor Young | Songs |
| Writing | Frank Loesser | Lyricist |
| Writing | Jule Styne | Lyricist |
