Dancing In the Dark is a 1949 Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Irving Reis, starring William Powell and Mark Stevens. Betsy Drake's singing voice was dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams.
| Dancing In the Dark | |
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| Directed by | Irving Reis |
| Screenplay by | Mary C. McCall Jr. Marion Turk (adaptation) Jay Dratler (additional dialogue) |
| Based on | The Band Wagon by Howard Dietz, George S. Kaufman, Arthur Schwartz |
| Produced by | George Jessel |
| Starring | William Powell Mark Stevens Betsy Drake Adolphe Menjou |
| Cinematography | Harry Jackson |
| Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.3 million[1] |
Plot
editThis musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, an unlikeable actor who was once a major film star, but who has not worked in ten years. Slade tries to convince studio chief Melville Crossman (Adolphe Menjou) to give the female lead in the film version of a Broadway musical to an unknown, rather than the actress he was sent to New York to sign.[2]
Cast
edit- William Powell as Emery Slade
- Mark Stevens as Bill Davis
- Betsy Drake as Julie Clarke
- Adolphe Menjou as Melville Crossman
- Randy Stuart as Rosalie Brooks
- Lloyd Corrigan as John Barker
- Hope Emerson as Mrs. Schlaghammer
- Walter Catlett as Joe Brooks
- Don Beddoe as Barney Bassett
- Jean Hersholt as Jean Hersholt
References
edit- ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 223
- ^ "'Dancing in the Dark' Listing" Archived 2012-07-17 at archive.today Allrovi.com, accessed August 21, 2011
External links
edit- Dancing in the Dark at IMDb
- Dancing in the Dark at the TCM Movie Database
- Dancing in the Dark at AllMovie
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