Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Released on
Documentary, History
Runtime
107 mins
(7 votes)

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
  • John Dillinger
  • 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
  • Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Hedy Lamarr
  • Stan Laurel
  • Gypsy Rose Lee
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Carole Lombard
  • Joe Louis
  • 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
  • James Roosevelt
  • Cliff Saum
  • 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
  • Harlow Wilcox
  • Walter Winchell
  • Fay Wray
  • Loretta Young
  • Tammany Young

Director

  • Philippe Mora

Producers

  • Sanford Lieberson
  • David Puttnam

Screenwriter

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