Dance, Girl, Dance (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
Heartbreak Behind Gayety of a Girly-Girl Show!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: May 19, 2020
- Originally Released: 1940
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Maureen O'Hara & Lucille Ball | |
Performer: | Louis Hayward, Maria Ouspenskaya, Mary Carlisle, Virginia Field, Katharine Alexander, Edward Brophy, Walter Abel & Ralph Bellamy | |
Directed by | Dorothy Arzner | |
Screenplay by | Tess Slesinger & Frank Davis | |
Composition by | Edward Ward & Chester Forrest | |
Art Direction by | Van Nest Polglase | |
Produced by | Erich Pommer | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Metty |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 4 -- [A] story naturally about second-tier showbiz....A cult feminist drama...
USA Today
Rating: 2/5 --
Pioneering female director Dorothy Arzner, who took over at short notice after filming commenced, does her best with an inadequate script and a miscast O'Hara; she manages to bring the film to life from time to time -- usually when Ball is on screen.
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Radio Times
Rating: B+ --
Arguably Dorothy Arzner's most personal film, this chronicle of female friendship is an anomaly: a feminist film made before feminism existed, directed by Hollywood's only female director, and a buddy picture before the genre was invented.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Dorothy Arzner's best film, Dance, Girl, Dance, spotlights women's inner worlds.
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ToxicUniverse.com
This jaunty RKO musical... was directed by Dorothy Arzner, and has been reclaimed over the years as a film of relevance to the feminist movement.
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Senses of Cinema
Arzner's internal critique of Hollywood ideology (woman as silent object of male scrutiny). It works within the confines of a stock vaudevillian golddiggers comedy-drama.
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Time Out
Without rising out of the cinematically conventional, the movie's self-reflexivity continually questions the gaze of the camera.
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CinePassion
Product Description:
O'Hara as a lovely, young, aspiring ballerina falls into a livelier life in burlesque as a result of her competition with Ball as Bubbles, a firecracker burlesque dancer. Her efforts to redeem herself and direction by pioneer female director Arzner makes this a favorite among feminists. In any case, interesting for the early O'Hara and Ball roles.
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