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{{short description|1944 film by Cy Endfield}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Dancing Romeo
| image = OG Dancing Romeo onesheet.jpg
 
| image_size =
| caption =
| director = [[Cyril Endfield]]
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| writer = [[Hal Law]]<br>[[Robert A. McGowan]]
| narrator =
| starring = [[Billy Laughlin]]<br />[[Robert Blake (actor)|RobertBobby Blake]]<br />[[Janet Burston]]<br />[[Billie Thomas]]<br />[[Valerie Lee]]<br>Bobby Browning
| music = [[Max Terr]]<ref>McCarty, Clifford (2000). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=IK7tuydSUpQC&dq=max+terr&pg=PA322 Film Composers in America: A Filmography, 1911-1970]''. New York: Oxford University Press. p.&nbsp;322. {{ISBN|0-19-511473-6}}.</ref>
| music =
| cinematography = [[Charles Salerno Jr.]]
| editing = [[Leon Bourgeau]]
| distributor = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]]
| released = {{Film date|1944|04|29}}
| runtime = {{duration | m=10' | s= 50" }}
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $27,353<ref name="MGMfinance">Maltin, Leonard & Bann, Richard W (1977, rev. 1992). The Little Rascals: The Life & Times of Our Gang. New York: Crown Publishing/Three Rivers Press. {{ISBN |0-517-58325-9}}. p. 235-236.</ref>
}}
 
'''''Dancing Romeo''''' is a 1944 ''[[Our Gang]]'' [[short subject|short]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Cyril Endfield]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |last2=Bann |first2=Richard W. |title=Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals |date=1977 |publisher=Crown Publishers |page=256 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/256/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}}</ref> Produced and released by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], it was the 220th and final ''Our Gang'' short to be released.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226220/Dancing-Romeo/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120072504/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226220/Dancing-Romeo/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-20 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Hal Erickson |title=New York Times: Dancing-Romeo|author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2007 |accessdate=2008-10-08|work=NY Times}}</ref>
 
==Plot==
Froggy has a crush on a young girl named Marilyn, who is too preoccupied with her budding career as a dancer to pay Froggy attention. When the gang attends one of Marilyn's recitals, Froggy finds himself insanely jealous of Marilyn's dancing partner Gerald, whom he sees as a rival for Marilyn's affections.
 
A few days later, Froggy holds a dance recital of his ''own'', hoping to impress Marilyn. His seemingly gravity-defying moves are accomplished with the help of Mickey and Buckwheat, who've rigged their pal up with wires and control his movements via a pulley. Gerald exposes this artifice, hoping to embarrass Froggy. Marilyn, however, is impressed by Froggy's determination, and tells him she loves him - onlyhim—only to have the deep-voiced boy faint dead away.
 
==Notes==
*''Dancing Romeo'' was the final short to be filmed and released in the 22-year ''Our Gang'' canon. Its antecedent on the release schedule, ''[[Tale of a Dog]]'', is sometimes considered the final film in the series, as it has a later production number (no. 2866 vs. ''Dancing Romeo's'' production no. 2861) and began pre-production first.<ref name="MGMfinance" />▼
*Along with ''Tale of a Dog'' and ''[[Radio Bugs]]'', ''Dancing Romeo'' was directed by [[Cyril Endfield]] in late 1943, and released in April 1944. According to financial data prepared by MGM in 1956, ''Dancing Romeo'' cost $27,353 to produce, but lost $10,340—more than any other ''Our Gang'' short—at the box office.<ref name="MGMfinance" /> By 1943, the series had ceased to be profitable, leading to its cancellation.<ref name="MGMfinance" />▼
*[[Hal Roach]], who created and produced ''Our Gang'' until selling the series to MGM in 1938, would revive the ''Our Gang'' concept for a pair of late-1940s features, ''[[Curley (1947 film)|Curley]]'' and ''[[Who Killed Doc Robbin]]''. ''Our Gang'' didn't become profitable again until Hal Roach bought back the 1927-1938 Roach-produced ''Our Gang'' comedies (excluding ''[[General Spanky]]'') from MGM in 1949 and later syndicated the Roach-produced shorts to television as ''The Little Rascals'' (and, after 1950, several theatrical reissues through [[Monogram Pictures]] and [[Allied Artists Pictures Corporation|Allied Artists]]), leading to its renewed popularity from the 1950s on.▼
 
==Cast==
===The Gang===
*[[Billy "Froggy" Laughlin ]] as Froggy
*[[Robert Blake (actor)|Bobby Blake]] as Mickey
*[[Janet Burston]] as Janet
*[[Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas ]] as Buckwheat
 
===Additional cast===
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*Dickie Hall as Boy who figured Froggy has been dancing for years
*Frank Ward as Boy who can't wait to see Froggy dance
 
==Production==
▲*''Dancing Romeo'' was the final short to be filmed and released in the 22-year ''Our Gang'' canon. Its antecedent on the release schedule, ''[[Tale of a Dog]]'', is sometimes considered the final film in the series, as it has a later production number (no. 2866 vs. ''Dancing Romeo's'' production no. 2861) and began pre-production first.<ref name="MGMfinance" />
 
▲*Along with ''Tale of a Dog'' and ''[[Radio Bugs]]'', ''Dancing Romeo'' was directed by [[Cyril Endfield]] in late 1943, and released in April 1944. According to financial data prepared by MGM in 1956, ''Dancing Romeo'' cost $27,353 to produce, but lost $10,340—more than any other ''Our Gang'' short—at the box office.<ref name="MGMfinance" /> By 1943, the series had ceased to be profitable, leading to its cancellation.<ref name="MGMfinance" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/filmdail84wids/page/n42/mode/1up|title="Our Gang" Dropped as a Metro Series|publisher=[[The Film Daily]]|date=1943-10-07|accessdate=2020-05-13}}</ref>
 
▲*[[Hal Roach]], who created and produced ''Our Gang'' untilcreator selling[[Hal the series to MGM in 1938,Roach]] would revive the ''Our Gang'' concept for a pair of late-1940s features, ''[[Curley (1947 film)|Curley]]'' and ''[[Who Killed Doc Robbin]]''. ''Our Gang'' didn'tdid not become profitable again until Hal Roach bought back the 1927-1938 Roach-produced ''Our Gang'' comedies (excluding ''[[General Spanky]]'') from MGM in 1949 and later syndicated the Roach-produced shorts to television as ''The Little Rascals'' (and, after 1950, several theatrical reissues through [[Monogram Pictures]] and [[Allied Artists Pictures Corporation|Allied Artists]]), leading to its renewed popularity from the 1950s on.
 
==See also==
* [[Our Gang filmography|''Our Gang'' filmography]]
*[[List of American films of 1944]]
 
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[[Category:Our Gang films]]
[[Category:1940s dance films]]
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