Joan Crawford has top billing as the “Dancing Lady,” co-starring in this MGM musical with Clark Gable. This show business tale tells the story of a young dancer who is bailed out of trouble by a millionaire playboy, played by Franchot Tone. He lands her with a job with Gable’s Broadway show. Complications arise when Tone’s character tries to meddle behind the scenes.
The film is a first for several performers. Fred Astaire makes his big screen debut, doing some impressive dance numbers with Crawford, not a natural hoofing talent like her partner. Moe Howard, Curly Howard, and Larry Fine make one of their early appearances as the Three Stooges, then led by Ted Healy. And this is the first credited movie appearance of Nelson Eddy.
Also starring are May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Robert Benchley, Al Jarrett, Grant Mitchell, Sterling Holloway, Gloria Foy, Maynard Holmes, and Eve Arden in an uncredited cameo as a Southern actress, only her second movie role. “Dancing Lady” was successful at the box office for director Robert Z. Leonard, producer John W. Considine Jr., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Dancing Lady (1933)
cinema
My Review
Joan Crawford has top billing as the “Dancing Lady,” co-starring in this MGM musical with Clark Gable. This show business tale tells the story of a young dancer who is bailed out of trouble by a millionaire playboy, played by Franchot Tone. He lands her with a job with Gable’s Broadway show. Complications arise when Tone’s character tries to meddle behind the scenes.
The film is a first for several performers. Fred Astaire makes his big screen debut, doing some impressive dance numbers with Crawford, not a natural hoofing talent like her partner. Moe Howard, Curly Howard, and Larry Fine make one of their early appearances as the Three Stooges, then led by Ted Healy. And this is the first credited movie appearance of Nelson Eddy.
Also starring are May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Robert Benchley, Al Jarrett, Grant Mitchell, Sterling Holloway, Gloria Foy, Maynard Holmes, and Eve Arden in an uncredited cameo as a Southern actress, only her second movie role. “Dancing Lady” was successful at the box office for director Robert Z. Leonard, producer John W. Considine Jr., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.