{"id":87,"date":"2006-03-26T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T20:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=87"},"modified":"2022-07-28T11:21:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:21:01","slug":"dance-girl-dance-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;What&#8217;s it for? So&#8217;s you can go home when the show&#8217;s over and strut before your wives and sweethearts and play at being the stronger sex for a minute?!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girl-Dance-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girl-Dance-Poster-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girl-Dance-Poster-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girl-Dance-Poster-89x128.jpg 89w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girl-Dance-Poster.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nJudy (Maureen O&#8217;Hara) wants nothing more than to become a &#8220;serious&#8221; ballerina, but finds herself hustling a living in burlesques alongside her outrageous, money-grubbing friend Bubbles (Lucille Ball). <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aspiring Stars<\/li>\n<li>Dancers<\/li>\n<li>Dorothy Arzner Films<\/li>\n<li>Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues<\/li>\n<li>Louis Hayward Films<\/li>\n<li>Lucille Ball Films<\/li>\n<li>Maureen O&#8217;Hara Films<\/li>\n<li>Musicals<\/li>\n<li>Ralph Bellamy Films<\/li>\n<li>Romance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this &#8220;fascinating&#8221; early feminist film &#8212; in addition to being an enjoyable &#8220;backstage musical&#8221; &#8212; is noteworthy for being helmed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/dorothy+arzner?cat=entertainment\">Dorothy Arzner<\/a>, virtually the only female director in Hollywood during the thirties and forties. The story remains true to Arzner&#8217;s feminist loyalties: while men are clearly the ones with the most power here, the females in the film do what they can to look out for each other and follow their dreams. They are &#8220;intelligent, witty, courageous, resilient, self-motivated, self-reliant, honorable, and ambitious&#8221; &#8212; and, most unusually for the time, are willing to put career first, over romance. <em>Dance, Girl, Dance<\/em> is also notable for giving Lucille Ball one of her best early roles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lucille Ball as Bubbles<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ball.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ball-1024x727.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"454\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ball-1024x727.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ball-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ball-128x91.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ball-768x545.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ball-1536x1091.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ball.png 1567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Maria Ouspenskaya as Madame Basilova<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ouspenskaya.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ouspenskaya-1024x687.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ouspenskaya-1024x687.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ouspenskaya-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ouspenskaya-128x86.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ouspenskaya-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-Ouspenskaya.png 1441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s fiery speech to the men in the burlesque audience<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-OHara.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-OHara-1024x724.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-OHara-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-OHara-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-OHara-128x90.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-OHara-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-OHara-1536x1086.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Dance-Girls-Dance-OHara.png 1548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as Arzner&#8217;s best film, and for the memorable performances by both O&#8217;Hara and Ball. Discussed at length in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?page_id=5986\">Peary&#8217;s <em>Cult Movies<\/em> (1981)<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Important Director<\/li>\n<li>Noteworthy Performance(s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/1001Movies.htm\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0032376\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1940\/10\/11\/archives\/the-screen-in-review-laughton-in-they-knew-what-they-wanted-at.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/649\/dance-girl-dance#articles-reviews?articleId=79792\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s it for? So&#8217;s you can go home when the show&#8217;s over and strut before your wives and sweethearts and play at being the stronger sex for a minute?!&#8221; Synopsis: Judy (Maureen O&#8217;Hara) wants nothing more than to become a &#8220;serious&#8221; ballerina, but finds herself hustling a living in burlesques alongside her outrageous, money-grubbing friend Bubbles (Lucille Ball). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Aspiring Stars Dancers Dorothy Arzner Films Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues Louis Hayward Films Lucille Ball Films Maureen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=87\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85891,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/85891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}