- Description
Tap Dance America is a reference work of bibliographic information and does not point to digitized versions of the items described. The Library of Congress may or may not own a copy of a particular film or video. To request additional information Ask a Librarian.
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Dames / Ruby Keeler [film]
- Title
- Dames [Film]
- Performers
- Keeler, Ruby
- Powell, Dick
- Published/Created
- 1934-10-03
- Genre
- Film
- Note
- Warner Brothers
- Abstract
- Busby Berkeley-directed feature-length film starring Ruby Keeler. In "Girl at the Ironing Board" Joan Blondell leads a groups of blonde laundresses in a song and dance that has them using mens' long underwear and pajamas as movable props; in "Dames" the most effective production number, Berkeley moves his chorines through a single day, showing them waking up, exercising, bathing, and putting on makeup and finally, after dancing with their stage-door Johnnies, the girls get their rewards: close-ups of their smiling faces. The number ends with a display of abstract patterns made up of the girls' black leotards and character shoes.
- Source
- Frank, Rusty E.: Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and their Stories 1900-1955. New York, William Morrow. (1990).
- Smith, Ernie: Selected List of Films and Kinescopes. In Jean and Marshall Stearns' Jazz Dance (1968).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015