Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The lean, mean 30's, when America laughed… to keep from crying!
1975•1h 47m•6.3/10
DocumentaryHistory
Ratings
🎬TMDb
6.3/10(9)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Production
Goodtimes Enterprises, VPS Studios
Language
EN
Status
Released
Release Date
Available in Your Library
Cast
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)
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