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Everybody Dance
Original trade ad
Directed byCharles Reisner
Screenplay by
Based ona story by Leslie Arliss
& Stafford Dickens
Produced byMichael Balcon
Starring
CinematographyJack Cox
Edited byR. E. Dearing
Music byWords & music:
Mack Gordon
Harry Revel
Musical director:
Louis Levy
Production
companies
Distributed byGaumont British Distributors
Release dates
  • September 1936 (1936-09) (London, England)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Everybody Dance is a 1936 British musical film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Ernest Truex, Percy Parsons and Alma Taylor.[1] The film's sets were designed by Alex Vetchinsky. It was made at Islington Studios.[2]

Sidney Gilliat called it "dreadful".[3]

Plot

When a successful nightclub singer (Cicely Courtneidge) finds herself guardian to her late sisters children, she ditches her singing career and takes the kids to live on a farm. Her manager is less than happy and resorts to legal means to try and stop her.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Everybody Dance (1936) - Charles "Chuck" Riesner - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  2. ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | EVERYBODY DANCE (1936)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  3. ^ Fowler, Roy; Haines, Taffy (15 May 1990). "Interview with Sidney Gilliat" (PDF). British Entertainment History Project. p. 54.

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

Everybody Dance at IMDb