Dancing Lady
Joan Crawford was Fred Astaire's first on-screen dance partner. Interestingly, Crawford would pass away on Astaire's 78th birthday.,Ted Healy's The Three Stooges have small parts in the movie as stagehands. (at around 28 mins) Larry asks Moe, "How are you in the country?" Moe slaps Larry, at which time a large bridge or other dental appliance shoots out of Larry's mouth, bounces off of Curly, and falls to the floor. None of the other cast members seem to notice, and Larry stays in character and continues to deliver his lines.,Patch Gallagher: Yes, yes, yes, the top spot. Where if you drop, you've got twice as far to fall. Maybe I'm a sap for trying. And maybe I can make something out of you if you can stand up when I get through with you.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I've got good legs, Mr. Gallagher.
Patch Gallagher: Yes, so I've noticed, but don't let them run away with you.,Edited into The Big Idea (1934),Hold Your Man
(1933) (uncredited)
Music by Nacio Herb Brown
Lyrics by Arthur Freed
Sung and Danced by Winnie Lightner and chorus,Perhaps the most eclectic cast in movie history. Here we have Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone in his man-about-town mode, Fred Astaire playing himself in his movie debut, Nelson Eddy in his second film, Robert Benchley contrasting with Ted Healy and the Three Stooges, (in by far their most prominent role before the TV era) and even a young Eve Arden. Gable spends the film snarling at everybody and demanding that they produce a "modern, up-to-date musical" that's about what's happening now. Somehow this morphs into a finale in which Astaire and Crawford are prancing about in liederhosen, (which has a relevance to 1933 they perhaps didn't anticipate). What it all proves it that MGM, while it had the know-how to make the greatest musicals of all-time in the 1940's and 1950's, just didn't quite "get it" yet in 1933. RKO and Warners were still miles ahead of them.,