Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
1h 30m | PG-13
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Video: 720p
Cast
Maureen O'Hara
as Judy O'Brien
Louis Hayward
as Jimmy Harris
Lucille Ball
as Bubbles
Virginia Field
as Elinor Harris
Ralph Bellamy
as Steve Adams
Maria Ouspenskaya
as Madame Basilova
Reviews
A really fun film that I found in my Maureen O'Hara TCM 4-pack that I highly recommend if you enjoy films from that era. I like the two films I've seen so far from Arzner, who was one of the earliest and most successful of female directors and I believe the first openly lesbian one--the other work I've seen of hers is the great pre-Code look at alcoholism, 'Merrily We Go to Hell'. This is great if you either like musicals from the era, are a Maureen O'Hara or Lucille Ball enthusiast (holy, she was unbelievably a knockout in her early filmic days!) or are simply curious about the works of early female and/or lesbian directors. Arzner--at least in the two films I have seen from her thus far--showed she truly deserved to be successful in the industry.