Dancing Sweeties
1930 film
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Dancing Sweeties |
| image | Dancing_Sweeties_1930_Poster.jpg |
| caption | theatrical release poster |
| director | Ray Enright |
| writer | Gordon Rigby |
| Joseph Jackson | |
| based_on | |
| starring | Grant Withers |
| Sue Carol | |
| music | Cecil Copping |
| Rex Dunn | |
| Joseph Burke | |
| Al Dubin | |
| cinematography | Robert Kurrle |
| editing | George Marks |
| studio | Warner Bros. |
| distributor | Warner Bros. |
| country | United States |
| released | |
| runtime | 62 minutes |
| language | English |
| :: |
| name = Dancing Sweeties | image = Dancing_Sweeties_1930_Poster.jpg | caption = theatrical release poster | producer = | director = Ray Enright | writer = Gordon Rigby Joseph Jackson | based_on = | starring = Grant Withers Sue Carol | music = Cecil Copping Rex Dunn Joseph Burke Al Dubin | cinematography = Robert Kurrle | editing = George Marks | studio = Warner Bros. | distributor = Warner Bros. | country = United States | released = | runtime = 62 minutes | language = English | budget = | gross =
Dancing Sweeties is a 1930 American pre-Code musical romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Grant Withers and Sue Carol. The film is based on the story Three Flights Up by Harry Fried. The film was produced and released by Warner Bros. on July 19, 1930.
Carol, then under contract to Fox Film, was loaned out to Warner Bros. for the making of this film.
Plot
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Grant Withers is a conceited dancer who spends all his free time dancing. He leaves his partner Edna Murphy, after seeing Sue Carol in the dance hall. He enters the waltz contest with Carol and ends up winning the first prize. Soon after they are convinced to marry by Sid Silvers (the dance hall manager), who needs a new couple to marry in a live ceremony in the dance-hall after another couple cancelled. He convinces them when he offers them a free furnished apartment which the other couple forfeited by not showing up. Withers' and Carol's parents are shocked by news of the marriage. Withers soon gets bored of home-life and the in-laws and yearns for dancing again. He convinces Carol to join him in a dance contest, but when she is unable to perform the dance steps of a new fox-trot, they fight. The fighting continues until they split up. After a while, Grant realizes what he has lost but thinks it may be too late to patch things up.
Cast
- Grant Withers as Bill Cleaver
- Sue Carol as Molly O'Neil
- Tully Marshall as Pa Cleaver
- Edna Murphy as "Jazzbo" Gans
- Adamae Vaughn as Emma O'Neil
- Eddie Phillips as Needles Thompson
- Margaret Seddon as Mrs. Cleaver
- Sid Silvers as Jerry Browne
Songs
- "The Kiss Waltz" (Sung by Grant Withers and Sue Carol)
- "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" (Cut from film before release)
Preservation status
The film survives complete and has been released by Warner Archive on DVD. It is also preserved at the Library of Congress.
References
Notes
Bibliography
- Barrios, Richard. A Song in the Dark (Oxford University Press, 1995)
References
- [http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3564 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:''Dancing Sweeties'']
- ''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at the Library of Congress'' <-book title> p.39 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
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