The Strip
M-G-M's musical melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer!
1951 | 85m | English
Popularity: 3 (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, murder of a woman, 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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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 3 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
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