Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The lean, mean 30's, when America laughed… to keep from crying!
1975 | 107m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Philippe Mora |
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| Writer: | Philippe Mora |
| Staring: |
| Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 06, 1975 |
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| Director: | Philippe Mora |
| Writer: | Philippe Mora |
| Genres: | History, Documentary |
| Keywords | great depression |
| Production Companies | Goodtimes Enterprises, VPS Studios |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Laverne Andrews | Self (archive footage) |
| Maxene Andrews | Self (archive footage) |
| Patty Andrews | Self (archive footage) |
| Fred Astaire | Self (archive footage) |
| Warner Baxter | Self (archive footage) |
| Wallace Beery | Self (archive footage) |
| Brooks Benedict | Self (archive footage) |
| Constance Bennett | Self (archive footage) |
| Jack Benny | Self (archive footage) |
| Busby Berkeley | Self (archive footage) |
| Irving Berlin | Self (archive footage) |
| Willie Best | Self (archive footage) |
| Herman Bing | Self (archive footage) |
| Joan Blondell | Self (archive footage) |
| Humphrey Bogart | Self (archive footage) |
| Fanny Brice | Self (archive footage) |
| Joe E. Brown | Self (archive footage) |
| James Burke | Self (archive footage) |
| James Cagney | Self (archive footage) |
| Eddie Cantor | Self (archive footage) |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | Self (archive footage) |
| George Chandler | Self (archive footage) |
| Charlie Chaplin | Self (archive footage) |
| Spencer Charters | Self (archive footage) |
| Winston Churchill | Self (archive footage) |
| Mae Clarke | Self (archive footage) |
| Betty Compson | Self (archive footage) |
| Gary Cooper | Self (archive footage) |
| Jackie Cooper | Self (archive footage) |
| Joan Crawford | Self (archive footage) |
| Bing Crosby | Self (archive footage) |
| Frankie Darro | Self (archive footage) |
| William B. Davidson | Self (archive footage) |
| Cecil B. DeMille | Self (archive footage) |
| John Dillinger | Self (archive footage) |
| Walt Disney | Self (archive footage) |
| Marie Dressler | Self (archive footage) |
| Tom Dugan | Self (archive footage) |
| Margaret Dumont | Self (archive footage) |
| James Dunn | Self (archive footage) |
| Irene Dunne | Self (archive footage) |
| Jimmy Durante | Self (archive footage) |
| Nelson Eddy | Self (archive footage) |
| Cliff Edwards | Self (archive footage) |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Self (archive footage) |
| Bill Elliott | Self (archive footage) |
| Madge Evans | Self (archive footage) |
| Alice Faye | Self (archive footage) |
| Stepin Fetchit | Self (archive footage) |
| W.C. Fields | Self (archive footage) |
| Errol Flynn | Self (archive footage) |
| Dick Foran | Self (archive footage) |
| Gerald Ford | Self (archive footage) |
| Preston Foster | Self (archive footage) |
| Kay Francis | Self (archive footage) |
| Clark Gable | Self (archive footage) |
| Judy Garland | Self (archive footage) |
| Janet Gaynor | Self (archive footage) |
| George Gershwin | Self (archive footage) |
| Benny Goodman | Self (archive footage) |
| Cary Grant | Self (archive footage) |
| Woody Guthrie | Self (archive footage) |
| Oliver Hardy | Self (archive footage) |
| Jean Harlow | Self (archive footage) |
| George 'Gabby' Hayes | Self (archive footage) |
| Katharine Hepburn | Self (archive footage) |
| Billie Holiday | Self (archive footage) |
| Herbert Hoover | Self (archive footage) |
| J. Edgar Hoover | Self (archive footage) |
| Bob Hope | Self (archive footage) |
| William Hopper | Self (archive footage) |
| Walter Huston | Self (archive footage) |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Self (archive footage) |
| Al Jolson | Self (archive footage) |
| Boris Karloff | Self (archive footage) |
| Ruby Keeler | Self (archive footage) |
| Jacqueline Kennedy | Self (archive footage) |
| John F. Kennedy | Self (archive footage) |
| Fiorello LaGuardia | Self (archive footage) |
| Hedy Lamarr | Self (archive footage) |
| Stan Laurel | Self (archive footage) |
| Gypsy Rose Lee | Self (archive footage) |
| Vivien Leigh | Self (archive footage) |
| Carole Lombard | Self (archive footage) |
| Joe Louis | Self (archive footage) |
| Myrna Loy | Self (archive footage) |
| Bela Lugosi | Self (archive footage) |
| Douglas MacArthur | Self (archive footage) |
| Jeanette MacDonald | Self (archive footage) |
| Fredric March | Self (archive footage) |
| Chico Marx | Self (archive footage) |
| Groucho Marx | Self (archive footage) |
| Harpo Marx | Self (archive footage) |
| Ethel Merman | Self (archive footage) |
| Grant Mitchell | Self (archive footage) |
| Paul Muni | Self (archive footage) |
| Harold Nicholas | Self (archive footage) |
| Fayard Nicholas | Self (archive footage) |
| Pat Nixon | Self (archive footage) |
| Richard Nixon | Self (archive footage) |
| Jesse Owens | Self (archive footage) |
| Dick Powell | Self (archive footage) |
| Eleanor Powell | Self (archive footage) |
| William Powell | Self (archive footage) |
| Tyrone Power | Self (archive footage) |
| George Raft | Self (archive footage) |
| Paul Robeson | Self (archive footage) |
| Dewey Robinson | Self (archive footage) |
| Edward G. Robinson | Self (archive footage) |
| Ginger Rogers | Self (archive footage) |
| Will Rogers | Self (archive footage) |
| Mickey Rooney | Self (archive footage) |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Self (archive footage) |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Self (archive footage) |
| James Roosevelt | Self (archive footage) |
| Cliff Saum | Self (archive footage) |
| Max Schmeling | Self (archive footage) |
| Kate Smith | Self (archive footage) |
| Barbara Stanwyck | Self (archive footage) |
| James Stewart | Self (archive footage) |
| Shirley Temple | Self (archive footage) |
| Spencer Tracy | Self (archive footage) |
| Harry S. Truman | Self (archive footage) |
| Rudy Vallee | Self (archive footage) |
| Ethel Waters | Self (archive footage) |
| John Wayne | Self (archive footage) |
| Johnny Weissmüller | Self (archive footage) |
| Orson Welles | Self (archive footage) |
| Mae West | Self (archive footage) |
| Harlow Wilcox | Self (archive footage) |
| Walter Winchell | Self (archive footage) |
| Fay Wray | Self (archive footage) |
| Loretta Young | Self (archive footage) |
| Tammany Young | Self (archive footage) |
| Name | Job |
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| Philippe Mora | Director, Writer |
| Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Thanks |
| Jeremy Thomas | Editor |
| Name | Title |
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| David Puttnam | Producer |
| Sanford Lieberson | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
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