Dancing Sweeties
About Dancing Sweeties
Bill Cleaver drops his partner Jazzbo Gans when he sees Molly O'Neil at the dance hall, enters the waltz with Molly, and wins the cup. Manager Jerry Browne, short a couple for a wedding staged on the floor, talks them into marrying that night and gives them the furnished apartment the missing couple forfeited. Their parents are appalled, the in-laws fill the flat, and Bill itches to dance again. Molly cannot follow a new fox-trot, they split, and Bill lies about dancing with Jazzbo. They meet again in the empty apartment and, in the last shot, both couples push baby carriages.
Cast & crew
More about Dancing Sweeties
Ray Enright directed from a script by Gordon Rigby and Joseph Jackson, based on Harry Fried's story "Three Flights Up." Sue Carol, under contract to Fox, was loaned to Warner Bros. Robert Kurrle photographed it, and George Marks edited. Warner Bros. released it on July 19, 1930.
Themes
Look
Robert Kurrle photographed the dance-hall contests and the apartment scenes.
Music
Cecil Copping, Rex Dunn, Joe Burke, and Al Dubin wrote the music. Grant Withers and Sue Carol sing "The Kiss Waltz."
Preservation
A complete print survives. The Library of Congress holds a copy, and Warner Archive has issued it on DVD.
Notes
- Grant Withers and Sue Carol sing "The Kiss Waltz." The score also includes "Hullabaloo.
- Dancing With Tears in My Eyes," by Joe Burke and Al Dubin, was cut before release.
- Sid Silvers plays Jerry Browne, Edna Murphy plays Jazzbo Gans, and Eddie Phillips plays Needles Thompson.
- Tully Marshall and Margaret Seddon play Bill's parents. Adamae Vaughn plays Emma O'Neil.
- An incidental cue reuses "If You Were Mine" from the 1929 film Twin Beds.
Scenes
- Bill and Molly win the waltz cup, then marry on the dance floor to claim an apartment.
- Molly loses the fox-trot and walks out.
- The last shot pairs Bill and Molly with Needles and Jazzbo, each couple pushing a baby carriage.
Influenced by
- Harry Fried's story "Three Flights Up
Also available
- Warner Archive Collection (DVD)
- Library of Congress
