We speak of “seminal” films such as “Citizen Kane,” “Casablanca,” and “Spartacus.” Let us now praise an “ovular” film: Dorothy Arzner's “Dance, Girl, Dance,” a 1940 movie as subversive and unconventional as the woman who made it..
The film follows two dancers who strive to preserve their own integrity while fighting for their place in the spotlight and for the affections of a wealthy young suitor.
In the decades following its release, the film was subject of critical reassessment and began to garner a reputation as a feminist film..
We speak of “seminal” films such as “Citizen Kane,” “Casablanca,” and “Spartacus.” Let us now praise an “ovular” film: Dorothy Arzner's “Dance, Girl, Dance,” a 1940 movie as subversive and unconventional as the woman who made it..
While dancing at the Palais Royale in Akron, Ohio, Bubbles, a cynical blonde chorine, and Judy O'Brien, an aspiring young ballerina, meet Jimmy Harris
• Maureen O'Hara as Judy O'Brien• Louis Hayward as James 'Jimmy' Harris Jr
The film was a critical and commercial failure, and its theatrical release lost RKO Studios roughly $400,000
• Dance, Girl
1962 single by the Shadows
