Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

The lean, mean 30's, when America laughed… to keep from crying!

5.7

English/107 min./1975

Genres

Documentary History

Synopsis

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Cast

Laverne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

Fred Astaire

Warner Baxter

Wallace Beery

Brooks Benedict

Constance Bennett

Jack Benny

Busby Berkeley

Irving Berlin

Willie Best

Herman Bing

Joan Blondell

Humphrey Bogart

Fanny Brice

Joe E. Brown

James Burke

James Cagney

Eddie Cantor

Hobart Cavanaugh

George Chandler

Charlie Chaplin

Spencer Charters

Winston Churchill

Mae Clarke

Betty Compson

Gary Cooper

Jackie Cooper

Joan Crawford

Bing Crosby

Frankie Darro

William B. Davidson

Cecil B. DeMille

Walt Disney

Marie Dressler

Tom Dugan

Margaret Dumont

James Dunn

Irene Dunne

Jimmy Durante

Nelson Eddy

Cliff Edwards

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bill Elliott

Madge Evans

Alice Faye

Stepin Fetchit

W.C. Fields

Errol Flynn

Dick Foran

Gerald Ford

Preston Foster

Kay Francis

Clark Gable

Judy Garland

Janet Gaynor

George Gershwin

Benny Goodman

Cary Grant

Woody Guthrie

Oliver Hardy

Jean Harlow

George 'Gabby' Hayes

Katharine Hepburn

Billie Holiday

Herbert Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

Bob Hope

William Hopper

Walter Huston

Lyndon B. Johnson

Al Jolson

Boris Karloff

Ruby Keeler

Jacqueline Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

Hedy Lamarr

Stan Laurel

Gypsy Rose Lee

Vivien Leigh

Carole Lombard

Myrna Loy

Bela Lugosi

Douglas MacArthur

Jeanette MacDonald

Fredric March

Chico Marx

Groucho Marx

Harpo Marx

Ethel Merman

Grant Mitchell

Paul Muni

Harold Nicholas

Fayard Nicholas

Pat Nixon

Richard Nixon

Jesse Owens

Dick Powell

Eleanor Powell

William Powell

Tyrone Power

George Raft

Paul Robeson

Dewey Robinson

Edward G. Robinson

Ginger Rogers

Will Rogers

Mickey Rooney

Eleanor Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Max Schmeling

Kate Smith

Barbara Stanwyck

James Stewart

Shirley Temple

Spencer Tracy

Harry S. Truman

Rudy Vallee

Ethel Waters

John Wayne

Johnny Weissmüller

Orson Welles

Mae West

Walter Winchell

Fay Wray

Loretta Young

Tammany Young

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