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Dance, Girl, Dance |  | Director: Dorothy Arzner
Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Maria Ouspenskaya
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Category: DVD
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 59002
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DT7822D
UPC: 053939782226
EAN: 0053939782226
ASIN: B000O76ZQM
Theatrical Release Date: August 30, 1940
Release Date: June 19, 2007
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Product Description
In possibly her most explicitly feminist film director Arzner pairs O'Hara as an idealistic young woman who dreams of becoming a ballerina with Ball the tough-as-leather show girl who doesn't take any shit from her leering drunken audience. Ball convinces O'Hara to become partners in a burlesque troupe in this entertaining "the vamp and the virgin" comedy-drama. As "Bubbles" Ball is in great form.Runtime: 90 minFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC Rating: NR UPC: 053939782226 Manufacturer No: T7822
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If you only know Lucille Ball from her phenomenal success as a TV comedienne, Dance, Girl, Dance will be a surprising revelation. Not only can Lucy dance and sing with the best of them (after all, she spent part of the 1930s playing a glamorous showgirl in various Goldwyn musicals), but she handily steals the spotlight from Maureen O'Hara in this good-looking RKO production from 1940. Lucy's big break had come only three years earlier (in Stage Door), but she'd been working in Hollywood for seven years when this enjoyable movie demonstrated the potential for movie stardom that Lucy deserved but never fully achieved. She's a bit brassy and a bit sassy, but she's got a heart of gold as Bubbles, a struggling ballet dancer who takes a skin-baring job in a burlesque club (under the man-teasing stage name of "Tiger Lily White") to boost her chances of show-biz success. She's a saucy gold-digger compared to the modestly forthright Judy (O'Hara), but their friendship sees them through as they share a dangerous dalliance with a millionaire playboy (Louis Hayward) before Judy discovers true love with Steve (Ralph Bellamy) the gentlemanly leader of a ballet company. It's not a classic by any means, but Dance, Girl, Dance is still briskly entertaining, and there's a touch of surprising melodrama involving O'Hara's ballet mentor (played by Maria Ouspenskaya). This movie also has the greater distinction of being directed by Dorothy Arzner, one of the only women (along with Ida Lupino) to break into the male-dominated profession of directing in golden-age Hollywood. Working from a savvy screenplay by Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis, Arzner gives Dance, Girl, Dance a feminist sensibility that was ahead of its time, later embraced by fans and critics as one of this movie's most enduring qualities. Also included in The Lucille Ball Film Collection, this DVD includes two short subjects from 1940: The 20-minute Vitaphone "two-reeler" "Just a Cute Kid," from a story by Damon Runyon and featuring comedy star Frank Faylen, and "Malibu Beach Party," a pun-filled Merrie Melodies cartoon hosted by "Jack Bunny" and featuring a variety of sun-tanned cameos from animated Hollywood stars. --Jeff Shannon
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 Queen Of Comedy Collection October 2, 2009
Endora Aphrattos (KY, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Lucille Ball Film Collection is really an excellent investment. It does not showcase all of her better known films but it does contain some and this collection is in no way lacking. The set contains: Dance Girl Dance, The big Street, Du Barry Was A Lady, Critic's Choice and her beloved version of Mame. The latter two are my favorites in the set! There are dramas, comedies, musicals, etc., just a wonderful collection to add to any fan's library. A dazzling cast fills each film! Expect to find Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Gene Kelly amongst them. If you at all loved this great lady do not miss out on these films.
 Great movies June 26, 2009
Maria Dia (Noosa. Qld. Australia)
If you love Lucille Ball you will love these movies. They are great.
I just love her.
 poor review June 17, 2009
E.C. Wolf (Illinois)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am back again with a poor review not on the movies, because I have yet to receive the collecttion and it has been over a month again that it was ordered. I sure hope someone is checking in on what has happened to the order. If someone can get back to me via email I sure would appreciate it I am giving a poor rating on the service.
amazing grace May 24, 2009
Roney Macedo Facchini (brazil)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
lucille; feminist
simone de beauvoir to the comedy
ball.dare to say she isn't like a party
roney
great movies for Lucy fans April 6, 2009
S. kortum (nebraska)
Im a huge Lucy fan and I am now getting into all her movies ... This is a great set!
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