Dancing Sweeties

1930
Passed
1h 2m

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Sue Carol and Grant Withers in Dancing Sweeties (1930)

Personalities and relationships are made and un-made in this story about dance contests and the contestants. Precode romances in this short-ish B film from Warner Brothers.Personalities and relationships are made and un-made in this story about dance contests and the contestants. Precode romances in this short-ish B film from Warner Brothers.Personalities and relationships are made and un-made in this story about dance contests and the contestants. Precode romances in this short-ish B film from Warner Brothers.

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5.4/10

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Grant Withers

Bill Cleaver

Sue Carol

Molly O'Neil

Tully Marshall

Pa Cleaver

Edna Murphy

'Jazzbo' Gans

Eddie Phillips

Needles Thompson

Margaret Seddon

Mrs. Cleaver

Sid Silvers

Jerry Browne

Vince Barnett

Ted Hoffman - Best Man at Dance Hall Wedding
(uncredited)

Billy Bletcher

Bud
(uncredited)

Joe Bordeaux

Dance Hall Customer
(uncredited)

Eddie Clayton

Onions
(uncredited)

Dora Dean

Nellie O'Neil
(uncredited)

Dick Gordon

Tommy Evans
(uncredited)

Roger Moore

Pat
(uncredited)

Lee Moran

Master of Ceremonies
(uncredited)

Lee Phelps

Athletic and Social Club Manager
(uncredited)

Kate Price

Mrs. O'Neil
(uncredited)

Harry Stubbs

Alderman Oliver
(uncredited)

Director
- Ray Enright
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Trivia
Although included among the more than 700 features in the Warner Bros. library acquired for television broadcast by Associated Artists Productions (AAP) in 1956, this one was rarely taken off the shelf because of its age and lack of star names still familiar to audiences of the 1950s. Its earliest documented television broadcast took place in San Francisco-Oakland Saturday 30 August 1958 on Movie Matinee on KTVU (Channel 2). Today it's firmly entrenched in the Turner Classic Movies archives and was most recently taken out for an airing Wednesday 24 March 2021 on TCM.

Quotes
Needles Thompson: [to some of his friends in the men's room] Boy, am I hot tonight. My feet are so hot I had to wear asbestos socks.
[does a few dance steps]

Crazy credits
Intro: "With some people dancing is a pleasure - - and with some people dancing is a business - - but with some people dancing is life......"

Soundtracks
The Kiss Waltz
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Joseph A. Burke
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Played at the Hoffman Parisian Dance Palace
Sung by Grant Withers
Reprised by an unidentified male quartet
Reprised by Sue Carol
Played as background music often

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6/10

okay song and dance, with some romance.

Bill (Grant Withers) always danced with Jazzbo (Edna Murphy) until he meets Molly (Sue Carol). Who are these actors ? No-one knows. Not the first string actors of the day, which is why they don't show this one often. Only 100 votes on imdb currently. Bill and Molly hit it off right away, but will their dancing be as good as their romancing? This one is clearly a musical, so there's lot of singing by the actors and others. I'm not a big fan of musicals, so I would have preferred they used that money to spiff up the script, but what do i know? It's plain and simple, and over quickly, so i guess it all works out. Original story Three Flights up by Harry Freid. Directed by Ray Enright; directed from the 1920s up into the 1950s.