On Your Toes

1939
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1 Std. 34 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe.A young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe.A young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe.

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5,6/10

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"On Your Toes" was adapted from a Broadway musical that opened at the Imperial Theater in New York on April 11, 1936 and ran for 315 performances. Ray Bolger starred in the original stage production. The musical was revived on Broadway in 1954 and 1983.

Patzer
George Balanchine's name is misspelled as "Ballanchine" in the credits.

Zitate
Sergei Alexandrovitch: I will not give the American audiences what they want, I will give them what they ought to like.

Crazy Credits
Lorenz Hart, the lyricist for the original Broadway show, receives onscreen credit, but his lyrics are never sung at all in the film.

Verbindungen
Featured in That's Dancing (1985)

Soundtracks
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
(1911) (uncredited)
Music by Nat Ayer
Second number performed by the Dancing Dolans, repeated during the vaudeville bits
Danced by Donald O'Connor, Queenie Smith and James Gleason

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5/10

Meager results considering it was a Broadway hit...

Except for the wonderful musical arrangement of "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue", the choreography looks less than inspired as danced by VERA ZORINA and EDDIE ALBERT. Especially if one has seen Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen do the number in a fantastic musical highlight from WORDS AND MUSIC. And the less said about the weak comedy routines, the better.

The only compensations in this weak transfer from stage to screen (in which "There's A Small Hotel" has been relegated to background music), is the pleasant cast. Eddie Albert is his usual charming self, gifted at comedy and easily stealing most of the scenes with his nonchalant genius for comic roles. Vera Zorina demonstrates that she could act, when called upon, but her role is the stereotyped diva in distress that any capable actress could do with her eyes shut.

Alan Hale, Leonid Kinskey, Donald O'Connor (as a boy hoofer), and Frank McHugh do their standard professional jobs in assorted light comedy roles--but despite their flair, most of the one-liners fall flat.

Surely, this was a more exciting event on Broadway than it appears in its screen incarnation with Ray Bolger appearing opposite Vera Zorina. Too little time expended on a worthwhile script and too many songs missing from the original stage musical. The result is a routine backstage musical with only the "Slaughter" ballet to redeem it.