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Dance, girl, dance / an RKO Radio picture ; RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. presents ; produced by Erich Pommer ; screen play by Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis ; story by Vicky Baum ; directed by Dorothy Arzner.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 427 DVD + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1028.
- The Criterion collection ; 1028
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dancers--Drama.
- Dancers.
- Friendship--Drama.
- Friendship.
- Burlesque (Theater).
- Female friendship--Drama.
- Female friendship.
- Burlesque (Theater)--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- DVD-Video discs.
- Comedy films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Musicals.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Show business films.
- Romantic comedy films.
- Musical films.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (89 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded sheet : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
- monochrome
- Edition:
- DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
- System Details:
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; 4:3 fullscreen (1.37:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman to work as a director in the Hollywood studio system of the '30s and early '40s, brings a subversive feminist sensibility to this juicily entertaining backstage melodrama. A behind-the-footlights look at friendship, jealousy, and ambition in the ruthless world of show business, Dance, Girl, Dance follows the intertwining fates of two chorus girls.
- Participant:
- Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field, Ralph Bellamy, Mary Carlisle, Katharine Alexander, Edward Brophy, Walter Abel, Harold Huber, Maria Ouspenskaya.
- Credits:
- Music director and music by Edward Ward ; lyrics [and one song] by Chester Forrest and Robert Wright ; dances staged by Ernst Matray ; director of photography, Russell Metty ; art director, Van Nest Polglase ; gowns by Edward Stevenson ; edited by Robert Wise.
- Notes:
- Title from title frame.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1940.
- Full screen (1.37:1).
- Restored 4K digital transfer.
- Special features: new introduction by B. Ruby Rich ; interview with Francis Ford Coppola ; essay by Sheila O'Malley (on insert).
- Contains:
- Container of: Dance, girl, dance (Motion picture : 1940)
- ISBN:
- 9781681437224
- 1681437228
- OCLC:
- 1145701807
- Publisher Number:
- 715515246316
- CC3150D The Criterion Collection
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