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Dancing on a Dime

"IT'S A MUSICAL METEOR!"

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.

Top Cast

  • Robert Paige

    Robert Paige

    Ted Brooks

  • Peter Lind Hayes

    Peter Lind Hayes

    Dandy Joslyn

  • Eddie Quillan

    Eddie Quillan

    Jack Norcross

  • Frank Jenks

    Frank Jenks

    Phil Miller

  • Grace McDonald

    Grace McDonald

    Lorie Fenton

  • Virginia Dale

    Virginia Dale

    Dolly Stewart

  • Carol Adams

    Carol Adams

    Polly Adams

  • Lillian Cornell

    Lillian Cornell

    Doris Marlowe

  • William Frawley

    William Frawley

    Mac

Overview

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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