So what did you think of this one??

I liked it. Good cast. I wrote a paper on it once for a film class. I wonder if I still have that...

Testing..

"Dance Girl, Dance" is a fascinating movie directed by Hollywood's lone female director of thirties and forties, Dorothy Arzner. It is a story of a woman (Maureen O' Hara) who wants a career--to dance--more than a man. After a date with a man she really likes played by Louis Hayward she looks out her window at the morning star and it is not Hayward she is wishing for but being a dancer--"please make me a dancer"--she wishes to be a ballet dancer.

Her road to her ultimate goal is long and difficult. To earn her way and pay for her ballet lessons she takes a job working in Lucille Ball's burlesque house. Lucy is tough, flirty, seemingly difficult--and Ball delivers a powerhouse performance which ranks as her best in a dramatic role. She has many girls who work under her and while she has a hard exterior--inside she cares for these girls--including O'Hara--and helps them in unexpected ways.

This is also one of O'Hara's best films and she too gives a top-notch performance. From 1940, Produced by RKO and Directed by the great Feminist Director, Dorothy Arzner--"Dance Girl, Dance" receives ***** out of ***** on my Lucy film meter.

Lucy movies aren't my area, but i agree she was great in this, and the director is famous for this picture, for once, a retrospective actually mentionned Lucy. Great performance as Lucy knew, a great director always got a great performance out of her. And we know she didn't have an affair with this one!

I though Maureen and Lucy had great chemistry together.

As was often the case with Lucy, if she liked the person, it somehow came through in the performance. And they were both similar dames, no nonsense, Maureen too put up with lots of crap for one of her husbands, and then the love of her life died in a plane crash. There are two Mauren stories i know, one was when they were doing publicity for the movie Maureen gave autographs while Lucy did it from the window of the car and some guy named Pops there said she would never amount to anything because of an attitude like that. When the story was told to Lucy years later, she commented, yeah, where is Pops today? The other one is that Lucy said that even if she tried she could never look glamorous like Maureen, she always looked like the cigarette girl at a night club. Which is why they were cast accordingly in this movie i guess!