Dames (1934)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Directors:

Ray Enright
Busby Berkeley

Writers:

Robert Lord (story) &
Delmer Daves (story) ...

Release Date:

1 September 1934 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

Multi millinaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campain against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows...

Plot Keywords:

Show Girl | Fight | New York | Jealousy | Hiccup

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Joan Blondell	...	Mabel Anderson
Dick Powell	...	James 'Jimmy' Higgens
Ruby Keeler	...	Barbara Hemingway, aka Joan Grey
Zasu Pitts	...	Matilda Ounce Hemingway (misspelled Mathilda in opening credits)
Guy Kibbee	...	Horace Peter Hemingway
Hugh Herbert	...	Ezra Ounce
Arthur Vinton	...	Bulger, Ounce's Bodyguard
Phil Regan	...	Johnny Harris, Songwriter
Arthur Aylesworth	...	Train Conductor
Johnny Arthur	...	Billings, Ounce's Secretary
Leila Bennett	...	Laura, Matilda's Maid
Berton Churchill	...	Harold Ellsworthy Todd
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bess Flowers	...	(scenes deleted)

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:(Banned) (1936) | USA:Approved (PCA #103)

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Vitaphone Corporation, The

Trivia:

In the "Dames" number, Dick Powell as a Broadway producer doesn't want to see composer George Gershwin, but when asked by his secretary about seeing Miss Dubin, Miss Warren and Miss Kelly, he lets them enter his office. Al Dubin and 'Harry Warren' wrote the music, and Orry-Kelly was costume designer of this picture.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: While Joan Blondell is singing "The Girl at the Ironing Board", a stage hand is seen in the background hanging a clothesline.

Quotes:

Barbara Hemingway: I'm free, white, and 21. I love to dance AND I'm going to dance.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Soundtrack:

Try to See It My Way

very fine

I like I have only eyes for you and I remember quite well Dick Powell singing this song. To day when I listen Frank Sinatra singing this melody I see in my mind Dick Powell singing it. All the films of Busby Berkeley I saw were very good, in those times there was no dubbing a we enjoy very much with the original American versions of the films, Notwhithstanding my short age, I was working in the broadcast station of Barcelona, People of Warner Bros brought us ogiginal records of music of the Warner, Movies among them was a trailer with yhe song I have only eyes for you, then I was able to play the record as many times as I wanted, enjoying very much with the song.