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Dance, Girl, Dance
+ intro by academic Lucy Bolton
Arzner lambasts the male gaze in her backstage study of friendship, ambition and jealousy.
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Director
Dorothy Arzner
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With
Maureen O’Hara, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Louis Hayward
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USA 1940. 89min
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35mm
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Certificate
PG
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A BFI National Archive print
‘No one seemed to know what the script was about… I decided the theme should be “the art spirit” versus the commercial “go-getter”,’ wrote Arzner of this part-peppy RKO musical, part-subversive feminist melodrama. In their struggle for self-actualisation, the virtuous Judy, an aspiring ballerina, and the brassy Bubbles, a burlesque queen, find themselves rivals – both on the stage and in love.
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