Dames

Dames is a 1934 Warner Bros. musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright with dance numbers created by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, ZaSu Pitts, and Hugh Herbert. Production numbers and songs include When You Were a Smile on Your Mothers Lips and a Twinkle in Your Daddys Eye, The Girl at the Ironing Board, I Only Have Eyes for You, Dames and Try to See It My Way.

Matildas husband, Horace Guy Kibbee meets a showgirl named Mabel Joan Blondell, whos been stranded in Troy when her show folds, and connives her way into sleeping in Horaces train compartment as a way to get back home. Terrified of scandal, he leaves her some money and his business card, along with a note telling her to not mention their meeting to anyone but when Mabel discovers that Horace is Barbaras father, she blackmails him into backing Jimmys show.The musical sequences in Dames were designed, staged and directed by Busby Berkeley the Warner Bros. publicity office invented the phrase cinematerpsichorean to describe Berkeleys creations. By this time, after the success of 42nd Street, Footlight Parade and Gold Diggers of 1933, Berkeley had his own unit at Warners, under his total control as supervised by producer Hal Wallis. ........

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