What's new

A Few Words About A few words about... Dancing Lady (1 Viewer)

Robert Harris

Archivist
Reviewer
Senior HTF Member
Joined
Feb 8, 1999
Messages
18,394
Real Name
Robert Harris
What an odd...

yet interesting cast and crew.

Start with Ted Healy and his Stooges.

That's right, an early incarnation of the trio, Howard, Fine and Howard, up to the antics which made them famous;

Clark Gable second billed to Joan Crawford as The Dancing Lady;

Fred Astaire in his film debut, playing himself;

Robert Benchley;

Nelson Eddy playing himself;

Franchot Tone as Ms. Crawford's love interest;

May Robson, Eve Arden (in her second screen appearance), and Lynn Bari, as chorus girls;

Photographed by Oliver Marsh -- Bitter Sweet, The Women, Sweethearts, San Franciso, The Great Ziegfeld, A Tale of Two Cities and others;

Edited by Margaret Booth (1898 - 2002) -- Annie, Calfornia Suite, The Goodbye Girl, The Way We Were, The Wizard of Oz (supervising), Camille, Mutiny on the Bounty, Reckless, The Mysterious Lady, and...

Orphans of the storm;

All somehow joined together in a very entertaining film, which has come down through the decades in absolutely beautiful condition.

Short of a number of frames which appear to have been removed electronically to avoid damage, the image is brilliant.

As a part of Warner's Clark Gable Collection, it, along with the rest of the Gable films comes Highly Recommended.

RAH
 

Ed St. Clair

Senior HTF Member
Joined
May 7, 2001
Messages
3,320
WoW
Thanks for the history lesson, as this title now definitely grabs my interest!
Looking forward to more HD reviews, as well.
 

Robert Harris

Archivist
Reviewer
Senior HTF Member
Joined
Feb 8, 1999
Messages
18,394
Real Name
Robert Harris
I believe there are two short subjects.

One in two-color Technicolor.

RAH
 

Art_AD

Stunt Coordinator
Joined
Mar 12, 2001
Messages
151
Maybe with the interest in the Three Stooges from the Dancing Lady Disc, maybe Warner will release the "MGM Three Stooges Festival" (which were all their MGM shorts shown together) and pair it with their great documentary "The Lost Stooges" narrated by Leonard Maltin
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Sign up for our newsletter

and receive essential news, curated deals, and much more







You will only receive emails from us. We will never sell or distribute your email address to third party companies at any time.

Latest Articles

Forum statistics

Threads
357,004
Messages
5,128,137
Members
144,228
Latest member
CoolMovies
Recent bookmarks
0
Top