Saturday, September 13, 2025, 2 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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(Robert Z. Leonard, US 1933, 92 min., 35mm)
In one of her most successful vehicles for M-G-M, Joan Crawford stars as a burlesque dancer who works her way up to chorus girl, then leading lady in director Clark Gable’s Broadway show. The musical highlight is Crawford’s dancing duet with Fred Astaire in his first movie. Comic relief is provided by Robert Benchley and Moe, Larry, and Curly, The Three Stooges. The studio thought that the chemistry between Gable and Crawford was so electric that they teamed them in eight films total between 1931 and 1940.