Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Arzner's internal critique of Hollywood ideology (woman as silent object of male scrutiny). It works within the confines of a stock vaudevillian golddiggers comedy-drama, tagging along with the old vamp/virgin dichotomy between dancers Ball and O'Hara until the latter upsets the spectacular equation by turning on her (the) audience of leering males with her observations.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Producer: Erich Pommer
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Lucille Ball, Louis Hayward, Ralph Bellamy, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 90 mins
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