Dancing Lady
Dancing Lady is a 1933 American PreCode musical film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and featuring Franchot Tone, Fred Astaire, Robert Benchley, and the Three Stooges. The picture was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by John W. Considine Jr. and David O. Selznick, and was based on the novel of the same name by James Warner Bellah, published the previous year. The movie had a hit song in Everything I Have Is Yours by Burton Lane and Harold Adamson.
Janie Barlow Joan Crawford is a young dancer who is reduced to stripping in a burlesque show. Arrested for indecent exposure, shes bailed out by millionaire playboy Tod Newton Franchot Tone who was attracted to her while slumming at the theatre with his society pals. When she tries to get a part in a Broadway musical, Tod intercedes with director Patch Gallagher Clark Gable to get her the job hell put his money into the show, if Janie is given a part in the chorus. Even though he needs the money, Patch is resistant, until he sees Janie dance and realizes her talent.When, after hard work and perseverance, Janie is elevated to the stars part replacing Vivian Warner Gloria Foy Tod is afraid hell lose any chance of gaining her affection if she becomes a star, so he closes the show, and Janie, out of work, goes away with him. Patch starts rehearsals up again using his own money, and when Janie returns and finds out that Tod has deceived her and manipulated things behind the scenes, she dumps him and joins up with her new sweetheart, Patch, to put on the show, which is a smash hit. ........
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