Dames (1934)
- Starring:
- Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, (more)
- Director(s):
- Ray Enright
Synopsis of Dames
As the title song says, you go to those shows to see those beautiful dames--and there's dames aplenty in this 1934 Busby Berkeley extravaganza. The wisp of a plot is motivated by one Ezra Ounce (Hugh Herbert), a silly millionaire who spearheads a national anti-fun movement. Ounce's distant cousin Dick Powell is a producer of musical comedies. Ounce's partner is Guy Kibbee, whose daughter is Ruby Keeler. Kibbee is also the "sugar daddy" of Joan Blondell, Powell's friend and co-worker. Fill in the rest of the blanks yourself. If the plot doesn't interest you (and there's no reason why it should), sit back and enjoy the humongous production numbers based on the Warren/Dubin songs "I Only Have Eyes for You", "The Girl on the Ironing Board", and of course the title number. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Dames
- Joan Blondell - Mabel Anderson
- Ruby Keeler - Barbara Hemingway
- Guy Kibbee - Horace P. Hemingway
- Arthur Vinton - Bulger
- Phil Regan - Johnny Harris
- Leila Bennett - Laura the Maid
- Johnny Arthur - Billings the Secretary
- Phil Tead - Reporter
- Charles Williams - Dance Director
- Busby Berkeley
- Eddie Kane - Harry, the Stage Manager
- Frank Darien - Druggist
- Robert H. Barrat
- Dick Powell - Jimmy Higgens
- ZaSu Pitts - Mathilda Hemingway
- Hugh Herbert - Ezra Ounce
- Sammy Fain - Buttercup Baumer
- Arthur Ayleswofth - Conductor
- Berton Churchill - H. Ellsworthy Todd
- Lester Dorr - Elevator Starter
- Diane Douglas - Chorus Girl
- Patricia Harper - Chorus Girl
- Fred "Snowflake" Toones - Porter
- Harry Holman - Spanish War Veteran
- Eddy Chandler - Guard
- Director(s):
- Ray Enright
- Writer(s):
- Robert Lord, Delmer Daves
- Producer(s):
- Darryl F. Zanuck, Robert Lord
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