The Dancing Masters (1943)

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This lesser Laurel and Hardy vehicle casts Stan and Ollie as the proprietors of the "Arthur Hurry" dance studio. Despite a rather sizeable student body (consisting mainly of 20th Century-Fox contract starlets), the boys would starve to death were it not for their only paying customer, socialite… More This lesser Laurel and Hardy vehicle casts Stan and Ollie as the proprietors of the "Arthur Hurry" dance studio. Despite a rather sizeable student body (consisting mainly of 20th Century-Fox contract starlets), the boys would starve to death were it not for their only paying customer, socialite Trudy Harlan (Trudy Marshall). Trudy is in love with Grant Lawrence (Robert Bailey), an aspiring inventor who needs financial backing for his revolutionary new flame thrower. Laurel and Hardy undertake several moneymaking schemes to help Grant, most of these coming a-cropper. Finally, Ollie remembers an accident-insurance policy taken out on Stan. He tries to arrange an accident so that the boys can collect a huge fee, but this scheme culminates in a wild bus ride, resulting in Ollie breaking his own leg. The plot of Dancing Masters is a hodgepodge of underdeveloped situations and old gags lifted from such earlier Laurel & Hardy comedies as The Battle of the Century and Thicker Than Water; only occasionally does the comic genius of Stan and Ollie shine through. If the film is memorable at all, it is because of the presence of Robert Mitchum, in an unbilled but sizeable role as an insurance racketeer. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 3 min.
Directed By: Malcolm St. Clair
Genres: Romance, Classics, Comedy

In Theaters: Nov 19, 1943 Wide

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Cast

            Stan Laurel as Himself

            Oliver Hardy as Himself

            Trudy Marshall as Mary Harlan

            Matt Briggs as Wentworth Harlan

            Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Harlan

            Nestor Paiva as Silvio

            George Lloyd as Jasper

            Robert Mitchum as Mickey

            Edward Earle as Clerk

            Sherry Hall as Dentist

            Sam Ash as Pianist

            William Haade as Truck Driver

            Arthur Space as Director

            Daphne Pollard as Mother

            Bob Bailey
            
            Buffalo Bill Jr. as Stage Driver

            Chick Collins as Bus Driver

            Hallam Cooley as Barker

            Robert Emmett Keane as Auctioneer

            Allan Lane as George Worthing

            Hank Mann as Vegetable Man

            Emory Parnell as Featherstone

            Florence Shirley as Dowager

            Harry Tyler as Man on Crutches

            George Tyne as Gangster

            Charles 'Buddy' Rogers as Butler

            Clair
            
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