Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Aug 6, 1975

1h 47m

★ 5.7

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

Overview

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

Genres

Documentary

History

Production Companies

Goodtimes Enterprises

VPS Studios

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Trailers

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Cast

Self (archive footage)

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

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.

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