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Dance, Girl, Dance is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, and Ralph Bellamy.The film follows two dancers who strive to preserve their own integrity while fighting for their place in the spotlight and for the affections of a wealthy young suitor.
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Dance, Girl, Dance: Directed by Dorothy Arzner, Roy Del Ruth. With Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field. After a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.
Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman to work as a director in the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and early ’40s, brings a subversive feminist sensibility to this juicily entertaining backstage melodrama. A behind-the-footlights look at friendship, jealousy, and ambition in the ruthless world of show business, Dance, Girl, Dance follows the intertwining fates of two chorus girls: a starry ...
John H A romp with a drunken trust fund baby lead, a lot of marginal dancing, non-titillating burlesque, and a soliloquy followed by a cat fight. Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03 ...
Judy and Bubbles are two of the eight members of Madame Lydia Basilova's struggling New York City based dance troupe. Judy is largely seen as the class of the troupe, and is secretly Madame Basilova's favorite as Madame Basilova is a former ballerina, ballet for which Judy has natural talent despite most of their dance gigs being for cabarets and revues.
Dance, Girl, Dance -- (Movie Clip) Too Classy When a night club boss (Harold Huber) isn't buying the Hula routine featuring Judy (Maureen O'Hara), Madame Basilova (Maria Ouspenskaya) produces Bubbles (Lucille Ball) just in time, in Dance, Girl, Dance, 1940.
Dorothy Arzner's Dance, Girl, Dance is widely (and accurately) considered a subversively feminist film, with its explicit calling out of the male gaze and society's shameless objectification of women. Unexpectedly, though, the film also contains an internal challenge to its own message, something unintentionally created by Lucille Ball's performance as the burlesque dancer, Bubbles.
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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.
