Dancing on a Dime
01/11/1940
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.
Movie Information
Robert Paige
as Ted Brooks
Peter Lind Hayes
as Dandy Joslyn
Eddie Quillan
as Jack Norcross
Frank Jenks
as Phil Miller
Grace McDonald
as Lorie Fenton
Virginia Dale
as Dolly Stewart
Carol Adams
as Polly Adams
Lillian Cornell
as Doris Marlowe
William Frawley
as Mac
Charles Lane
as Freeman Taylor
Wanda McKay
as Lulu
Arthur Aylesworth
as Joe Phillips
