Dancing in the Dark (1949 film)

Dancing In the Dark
Theatrical Film Poster
Directed byIrving Reis
Screenplay byMary C. McCall Jr.
Marion Turk (adaptation)
Jay Dratler (additional dialogue)
Based onThe Band Wagon
by Howard Dietz, George S. Kaufman, Arthur Schwartz
Produced byGeorge Jessel
StarringWilliam Powell
Mark Stevens
Betsy Drake
Adolphe Menjou
CinematographyHarry Jackson
Edited byLouis R. Loeffler
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • December 2, 1949 (1949-12-02)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.3 million[1]

Dancing In the Dark is a 1949 Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Irving Reis, starring William Powell and Mark Stevens. Betsy Drake's singing voice was dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams.

Plot

This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, an unlikeable actor who was once a major film star, but who has not worked in ten years. Slade tries to convince studio chief Melville Crossman (Adolphe Menjou) to give the female lead in the film version of a Broadway musical to an unknown, rather than the actress he was sent to New York to sign.[2]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 223
  2. ^ "'Dancing in the Dark' Listing" Archived 2012-07-17 at archive.today Allrovi.com, accessed August 21, 2011


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