Judy O’Brien is a dancer in a struggling chorus line, but dreams of one day joining a ballet company. Bubbles, a bold and alluring dancer, gets recruited for a burlesque show, leaving the other girls to flounder for work. Desperate, Judy accepts a humiliating job from Bubbles, doing ballet numbers between stripteases at the burlesque club. Meanwhile, a feud strikes up between the two women who both want the admiration of the audience and the affection of the same man! Maureen O’Hara and Lucille Ball swing onto the screen in Dorothy Arzner’s Dance, Girl, Dance.
“Arzner films it with fascination and enthusiasm, and the choreography is marked by the point of view of the spectators and the dancers’ awareness that they’re being watched.” – Richard Brody, New Yorker
