The Dancers is a 1930 American Pre-Code melodrama, produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation, and directed by Chandler Sprague. It is based on a 1923 Broadway play by Viola Tree and Gerald du Maurier. The film marks the feature sound film debut of actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
, 1h8 Réalisé parGeorge Nichols Jr., George Nicholls, Jr. OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame, Comédie ThèmesLa télévision, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre ActeursAnne Shirley, Phillips Holmes, Edward Ellis, Erik Rhodes, Margaret Hamilton, Lucille Ball Note60% Jenny Yates (Anne Shirley) dreams of following in the profession of her deceased actor parents, but her grandfather, Uriah Lowell, with whom she lives, strongly disapproves. One day, the chatty young woman strikes up a conversation with struggling painter/actor Phil Greene, Jr. He is associated with a summer stock company trying out a revival of an old melodrama, Virtue's Reward, in Jenny's rural community before opening in New York City. Jenny is thrilled when he offers to give her a free ticket to that night's show, as her mother had acted in that very play.
, 1h12 Réalisé parArchie Mayo OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame, Policier ThèmesLa télévision, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre ActeursEdward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Mae Clarke, Louis Calhern, Arthur Byron Note63% Jessica Wells (Astor) is a beautiful and talented actress, returning to the stage after a three-year absence. Although her triumphal return seems certain, family and friends are shocked when Vance (Calhern), her long-lost husband with a criminal past, shows up at the family home. He immediately exerts his influence on the vivacious Jessica, and she becomes a sleepwalking automaton blindly obeying orders.