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The Strip
M-G-M's musical melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer!
1951 | 85m | English
Popularity: 0.9 (history)
| Director: | László Kardos |
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| Writer: | Allen Rivkin |
| Staring: |
| Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 31, 1951 |
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| Director: | László Kardos |
| Writer: | Allen Rivkin |
| Genres: | |
| Keywords | drums, murder investigation, nightclub owner, told in flashback, jazz band, cabaret dancer, nightclub performer, accused of murder, hollywood hills, musical acts, accidental shooting, jazz dancer, aspiring actress, gun death, drummer, hollywood strip |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 16, 2026 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Mickey Rooney | Stanley Maxton |
| Sally Forrest | Jane Tafford |
| William Demarest | Fluff |
| James Craig | Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson |
| Kay Brown | Edna |
| Louis Armstrong | Himself |
| Myrna Dell | Paulette Ardrey |
| Vic Damone | Himself |
| Art Lewis | Sam |
| Tommy Rettig | Artie Ardrey |
| Tom Powers | Lt. Detective Bonnabel |
| Jonathan Cott | Behr |
| Jacqueline Fontaine | Frieda |
| Monica Lewis | Herself |
| Jack Teagarden | Himself |
| Earl Hines | Himself |
| Tommy Farrell | Boynton |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Allen Rivkin | Writer |
| László Kardos | Director |
| Albert Akst | Editor |
| Warren Newcombe | Special Effects |
| Alfred E. Spencer | Set Decoration |
| Leonid Vasian | Art Direction |
| Nick Castle | Choreographer |
| Robert Surtees | Director of Photography |
| A. Arnold Gillespie | Special Effects |
| Helen Rose | Costume Designer |
| Sydney Guilaroff | Hair Designer |
| William Tuttle | Makeup Designer |
| Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Douglas Shearer | Recording Supervision |
| Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Joe Pasternak | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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