Dance, Girl, Dance
Dance, Girl, Dance
A best-selling novelist in Austria, Vicki Baum emigrated first to New York then to Hollywood in the early 1930s, where she worked at MGM and Paramount. Several of her stories and novels were transformed for the screen, including Dance, Girl, Dance (and Hotel Berlin and Grand Hotel, which screen in this series).
A best-selling novelist in Austria, Vicki Baum emigrated first to New York then to Hollywood in the early 1930s, where she worked at MGM and Paramount. Several of her stories and novels were transformed for the screen, including Dance, Girl, Dance (and Hotel Berlin and Grand Hotel, which screen in this series). Directed by Dorothy Arzner, the comedy-drama stars Lucille Ball and Maureen O’Hara as out-of-work dancers who turn to burlesque to make ends meet. A flop on its release, it has since gained critical recognition for its subversive take on the male gaze.
Director: Dorothy Arzner. Cast: Maureen O’Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field. 1940. 90 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm.
All film screenings of Vienna in Hollywood: Émigrés and Exiles in the Studio System are available here.
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Author Noah Isenberg and actress Monika Henreid will speak before this 35mm nitrate screening.
