Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
- The lean, mean 30's, when America laughed… to keep from crying!
- 1975-08-06
- Documentary, History
- Jackie Cooper, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Janet Gaynor, Joe Louis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eddie Cantor, Johnny Weissmüller, Tyrone Power, Kate Smith, Walter Winchell, Ruby Keeler, Kay Francis, Fayard Nicholas, Wallace Beery, Bill Elliott, William B. Davidson, Richard Nixon, Tom Dugan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Patty Andrews, Nelson Eddy, Preston Foster, Boris Karloff, Hedy Lamarr, J. Edgar Hoover, Billie Holiday, W.C. Fields, Ethel Waters, Ethel Merman, Cary Grant, Rudy Vallee, Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, Loretta Young, Pat Nixon, Harold Nicholas, Shirley Temple, Fanny Brice, Warner Baxter, Douglas MacArthur, Bing Crosby, George Chandler, Brooks Benedict, William Hopper, Herman Bing, Grant Mitchell, Mae Clarke, Jeanette MacDonald, James Dunn, Errol Flynn, Fredric March, Constance Bennett, Walter Huston, Eleanor Powell, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Joan Blondell, Betty Compson, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Durante, Judy Garland, Jesse Owens, Jacqueline Kennedy, Paul Muni, Willie Best, Jack Benny, Gary Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Edward G. Robinson, Cliff Edwards, Harpo Marx, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Madge Evans, Spencer Charters, Clark Gable, Winston Churchill, Tammany Young, Vivien Leigh, Benny Goodman, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, William Powell, Harry S. Truman, Marie Dressler, Humphrey Bogart, Fay Wray, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ginger Rogers, Bob Hope, George Raft, Irene Dunne, Oliver Hardy, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Dick Powell, Spencer Tracy, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, Groucho Marx, Will Rogers, Gerald Ford, Joe E. Brown, James Burke, Cliff Saum, Carole Lombard, Stepin Fetchit, Paul Robeson, Bela Lugosi, Dick Foran, Margaret Dumont, Max Schmeling, Frankie Darro, Maxene Andrews, Laverne Andrews, Gypsy Rose Lee, Alice Faye, Dewey Robinson, Chico Marx, Harlow Wilcox, James Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Fiorello LaGuardia, Woody Guthrie, John Dillinger
- Orson Welles, Cecil B. DeMille, Busby Berkeley
- Walt Disney
- 1 h. 47 min.
- 5.7/10
- 7
- United Kingdom
- Goodtimes Enterprises, VPS Studios
Overview:
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.