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We Were Dancing is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Robert Z. Leonard released in USA on 30 april 1942 with Norma Shearer
We Were Dancing (1942)
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Add to a movie listWe Were Dancing is a 1942 MGM romantic comedy film based loosely on Noël Coward's 1935 play of the same name, together with ideas from Ways and Means, another play in Coward's Tonight at 8:30 play cycle, and Coward's Private Lives. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, written by Claudine West, Hans Rameau and George Froeschel, and starred Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas.
^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
^ Day, Barry. "We Were Dancing (1942)", Coward on Film: The Cinema of Noël Coward, Scarecrow Press (2005), pp. 36–37 ISBN 0810853582
^ Landazuri, Margarita. We Were Dancing, TCM.com, accessed 16 September 2014
Synopsis
Vicki Wilomirska, an impoverished Polish princess, falls madly in love while dancing with the charming but penniless Austrian baron Nicki Prax. She ends her engagement to a wealthy lawyer Hubert Tyler. They marry secretly but are exposed by one of Nicki's ex-girlfriends, decorator Linda Wayne. The two support themselves by being professional house guests in the homes of star-struck American nouveau riche. Eventually Nicki decides to do the unthinkable and get a job. Linda pursues Nicki, and Vicki, brokenhearted, sues for divorce. Hubert represents Vicki in the case, and the two again become engaged.Actors
Norma Shearer
(Victoria Anastasia Wilomirska)
Melvyn Douglas
(Nicholas Prax)
Gail Patrick
(Linda Wayne)
Lee Bowman
(Hubert Tyler)
Marjorie Main
(Judge Hawkes)
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