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I got my nickel when Art Jarrett's woolly timbre serenaded the crowd at the producer's party. Or whatever.

Clark Gable has hella charisma. I loved seeing him play something a little more sensitive than the wise-cracking reporter type. 4.4 out of 5 stars 72. this was sort of dull until the fantastical, berkeley-esque final numbers. and joan and fred!!! This…. Sources include IMDb, Wikipedia, pre-code.com and the…, Beth Winchester 1,461 films 107 3 Edit, Every film mentioned on Karina Longworth's Old Hollywood podcast "You Must Remember This."
Janie (Joan Crawford) lives to dance, but to make ends meet she works in a seedy nightclub. Watch Dancing Lady Online. Dancing Lady is a fun and fluffy back stage picture with Joan Crawford doing what she can to get to Broadway, Franchot Tone as her sneaky boyfriend, and Clark Gable as a stage director who sees her talent and puts her front and center.

The silent movie inspired chase through New York with Crawford and Gable near the beginning is particularly cool. He must have made a motza designing costumes for so many movies of this era. Will Janie skip out with the millionaire or will she dance her way to stardom? Dancing Lady is hard to forget, if only because Joan Crawford and Clark Gable are so beautiful in it. But that Clark Gable sure is handsome. Report this film. It was cute! I've seen an incredibly small number of Pre-Codes. Gable thought he was completely wrong for the part of a Broadway producer,…, A little too frenetic for a pre-code backstage musical, especially when The Three Stooges show up and start doing their comedy bit out of the blue. DVD. 3.8 out of 5 stars 43. But Clark Gabel is not funny.

nothing gets me more than a line of disaffected 30s showgirls who all have a single line in a song. In fact, he's such a brute, he actually sucks funniness out of movies. The final act is so much fun! Tough, determined Joan Crawford is the best Joan Crawford. Saying that - it was good fun and good performances all round. Clark Gable is so not funny, he can't even play a straight man. And it is a fretful dream to be sure. The Three Stooges make an appearance. Gable and Crawford have their same awesome chemistry, and the pre-code styling of Dancing Lady gives it plenty of sexually charged energy too. I'm surprised by how much I like this one.

I'm a man of cliches. ), and the kind of magical transformation that's only possible in the movies. Just got in the most intense fight with a Tod stan on twitter.

Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. What works: That delicious Crawford/Gable chemistry, that feels so natural and real (because it was natural and real). My heart burst. It has received poor reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.8. The joint gets raided and he bails her out. He worked with MGM from 1928-1941. If you love Joan Crawford like me you'll love this movie too! Special offers and product promotions. P O R N. Features my dream era, my dream swimming pool, and my dream man in lederhosen.

Its a well worn story - and all the beats you can see coming a mile off. Costumes by ”Adrian” once again. Bette Davis would do it in her own way, and it would be great, and so would Barbara Stanwyck, Olivia de Havilland, or Carole Lombard, but none of them would have the pure ease of Joan Crawford. Some platforms allow you to rent Dancing Lady for a limited time or purchase the movie and download it to your device. I swear her eyes were never bigger. After the club is raided by the cops, and Janie is arrested, Tod bails her out and helps her land a role in a Broadway musical being directed by Patch Gallagher (Clark Gable). He plays a very specific…. © Letterboxd Limited. It’s hard to think that people thought this was funny. Dancing Lady the 1933 Movie, Trailers, Videos and more at Yidio. A musical star is torn between a millionaire playboy and her stage manager. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities. Dancing Lady is an art deco dance extravaganza and is a good time about putting on a show and the drama of the people in it. Nicely detailed direction from Robert Z. Leonard and some clever editing, too. She's not much of a hoofer, but just the right combo of beautiful and ferocious. I did wish for a trifle more Fred Astaire, but I guess he had to start somewhere. Joan Crawford dancing with Fred Astaire? They're a completely unfamiliar world to me when compared with other classic films and while some of the stars are the same, the mood is vastly different. little bitty mustache. The book celebrates and chronicles over one…, Michael Hutchins 450 films 260 24 Edit, These are non-Janus films which are currently streaming on the Criterion Channel. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Somehow it has Crawford and Gable, plus Fred Astaire and the Three Stooges. Dancing Lady is an Comedy, Music, Romance movie that was released in 1933 and has a run time of 1 hr 32 min. Honestly, they're divine. So there.

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Other than that, this is a fun time! I think this was one of her best roles that I've seen so far. Listed in order of first episode it's….

I used to love Clark Gable more but now my heart belongs to Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum!Joan was great and so fit, she sure knew how to dance :P. I watched this while putting up alot of flat pack furniture. Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house.

Joan Crawford is so much more at ease in her performances than most other Golden Age stars. who will be brave enough to bring back the pencil mustache in that way? 23 offers from $3.09.
Film data from TMDb. And sometimes you just gotta explain to your six year old what a stripper is. I am dreaming. When her stalking of Patch Gallagher (Clark Gable) the director of a show doesn't work, the playboy intervenes to get her cast. And I'm tired and I need to write this before I fall asleep and do something with my head against the keyboard. And though Joan's not my absolute favorite, her character was well fleshed out.

This list is the Letterboxd version of The Oxford History of World Cinema. There is something magnetic about how helpless he is before Joan Crawford: can't stop smiling when he sees her, can't tear his eyes away. Clark Gable is a fine actor. Recently, I've been finding pre-Code films difficult to love. Dancing Lady is glitzy, but it's also a pretty frank and feminist picture too. From queer masterpieces to camp classics, documentaries to romantic comedies,…, the ultimate list of pre-code films (1930-1934) sorted by name, Buttersgreer 2,339 films 1,095 67 Edit, I do not include shorts, documentaries, live musicals or musicals on stage in this list, as they are not considered…, This list is an attempt to collect as many Pre-Code movies as possible. Clark Gable is handsome. As for the dancing, again it's hard to not compare this to musicals featuring all time great dancers in lead roles (like Born to Dance with…. They will very likely only be available for…, David Blakeslee 3,766 films 634 53 Edit, Updated on 10/19/2020 - A list, arranged in order of original release, of all films associated with the Criterion Collection,…, Nightmare on EM street 1,330 films 640 102 Edit, some films are not on tmdb, some may have been mismatched or simply not found when importing into…, NeverTooEarlyMP 4,405 films 1,678 66 Edit, A collection of queer characters, representations, and sensibilities on film. This movie is lots of fun, though a bit lightweight. Joan Crawford Clark Gable Franchot Tone May Robson Winnie Lightner Fred Astaire Robert Benchley Ted Healy Moe Howard Curly Howard Larry Fine Arthur Jarrett Grant Mitchell Nelson Eddy Maynard Holmes Sterling Holloway Gloria Foy Ferdinand Gottschalk Eve Arden Matt McHugh Larry Steers Charles Sullivan, James Warner Bellah Allen Rivkin P.J. And why she can get arrested for doing it. I didn't care for the romantic plotline, but that's just kind of how these films go most of the time. The extravagant musical number at the end of the film is stunning, and I liked many of the directorial choices. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Falling prey to the Three Stooges hijinks? Mobile site.

So I think he works against this movie's potential as a light-footed musical romance, but 29 year-old Joan Crawford, wow. Clark Gable struck me as a kind of broken dreamer/disillusioned artistic genius here. (Yes, also true of It Happened One Night.) I don’t know if Joan really charms me in lighter roles as much as I expected she would. They can be occasionally intoxicating with their devilish, unrestrained aura, but more often than not a pre-Coder flutters through my mind and then inconspicuously disappears, never to be thought of again. TMDb Janie just wants to dance, preferably on Broadway and she's not looking for any favors, mind you. Crawford is the closest thing to being that we got in the Golden Age. Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house.