Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDorothy Arzner
Screenplay byFrank Davis
Tess Slesinger
Story byVicki Baum
Produced byErich Pommer
Starring
CinematographyRussell Metty
Joseph H. August
Edited byRobert Wise
Music byEdward Ward
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • August 30, 1940 (1940-08-30)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Dance, Girl, Dance is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, and Ralph Bellamy. 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. In 2007, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", describing it as Arzner's "most intriguing film" and a "meditation on the disparity between art and commerce.

Dance, Girl, Dance was edited by Robert Wise, whose next film as editor was Citizen Kane and who later won Oscars as director of West Side Story and The Sound of Music.