Dames
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Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campaign against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows. He comes to his relatives families and makes them members of his morale-boosting campaign. But Jimmy, another relative is producing a show, starring Ezra's niece Barbara. But he had bad luck with his backer, this person has given him an invalid check. Another of his victims, the show-girl Mabel has the idea of blackmailing Horace, Barbara's father, whom she has... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Dames:

Joan Blondell
Dick Powell
Ruby Keeler
Zasu Pitts
Guy Kibbee
Hugh Herbert

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Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campaign against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows. He comes to his relatives families and makes them members of his morale-boosting campaign. But Jimmy, another relative is producing a show, starring Ezra's niece Barbara. But he had bad luck with his backer, this person has given him an invalid check. Another of his victims, the show-girl Mabel has the idea of blackmailing Horace, Barbara's father, whom she has met before in a slightly compromising situation to get the money.

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New Yorker - 7/10 by Richard BrodyThe movie belongs to Berkeley and his wondrous production numbers, which are all erotic fantasies.
Goatdog's Movies - 5/10 by Michael W. Phillips, Jr.The most Berkeleyesque of all [his films], for all the good and bad that entails.
User Review - 10/10 by Jetta WFunny movie with plenty of song-and-dance numbers from Dick Powell & Co. I really like it!
User Review - 10/10 by Michael Tanother winner for depression audiences from busby berkley
User Review - 10/10 by Private UWith the rise of the disgusting modern musical one can only fondly recal the glory days of Busby Berkeley and his incredible productions. With incredible singing, extraordinary dancing and excellent humor "Dames" is my personal favorite for Buerkeley's work. Joan Blondell shines but Dick Powell captures this movie. His performance of the titular song "Dames" knocked me out of my seat.
User Review - 8/10 by Ashley H'Dames' is a bit like two movies in one - the first, the drab build-up to the second, with a millionaire played by Hugh Herbert giving his money away to relatives under the condition that they lead moral lives. Herbert is horribly miscast and in several goofy, groan-inducing scenes. The only bright spots in the first hour of the 91 minute film are Dick Powell singing "I Only Have Eyes For You" on a ferry to Ruby Keeler, with older couples looking on, and the always-fun Joan Blondell, whose character scents a possible gold mine. On the other hand, the 'second movie', that last half hour, is brilliant. Here the incomparable Busby Berkeley takes over, and gives us several enchanting musical numbers. You'll have to ignore the fact that there's no way these performances would fit on a stage which is the premise, but who cares. The Joan Blondell led washer-woman number "The Girl at the Ironing Board" has some fun special effects, with clothes moving on their own, and segues briefly into music from Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Saint-Saëns. "I Only Have Eyes for You" is then reprised, with Powell singing to Keeler again, this time with people disappearing from crowded places and Keeler's face replacing other women's in advertisements to mirror the lyrics. It then segues into a wild dream sequence with an ensemble dancing about with giant cutouts of Keeler's face, sashaying around on giant stairways (one of them circular), and reassembling the poster of her face in puzzle-like fashion brilliantly by folding over the backs of their dresses. Berkeley then uses camera tricks to have Keeler appear out of her own eye and become miniaturized again onto the back of a mirror before waking up. Powell then romantically carries her across deserted train tracks. It's fantastic, and whatever you say about Keeler's dancing (which does leave a lot to be desired), she's charming in this performance. The title song "Dames" is then sung by Powell, with wonderful tight shots on pretty faces, followed by a dance number with the dames (er, women) waking up, bathing, applying makeup, and then going in to the movie studios to perform numbers which make beautiful geometric patterns with their legs while shot overhead, among many other things. You have to youtube some of these to see the genius and creativity of Busby Berkeley. It's unfortunate that the title was "Dames", based on the song of the same name, with the borderline-ugh lyrics like "What do you go for, go see a show for? Tell the truth, you go to see those beautiful dames", when it could have been "I Only Have Eyes For You", with romantic lyrics like "Are the stars out tonight? I don't know if it's cloudy or bright, 'cause I only have eyes for you, dear", which would inspire countless covers over all of the decades to the present. It's also unfortunate that the movie was made after the Hays code was in effect, with the result meaning that one of the musical numbers didn't make it to the screen, as well as (apparently) Blondell inviting everyone to see her cat with the line "come up and see my pussy sometime". It's a hard movie to rate and far from perfect, but "I Only Have Eyes For You" and the musical numbers by Busby Berkeley are wonderful and carry the day for me.
User Review - 8/10 by Rachel GAnother Busby Burkly classic and possibly his most famous. The choreography is amazing! And once again, I love Dick Powell in this.
User Review - 8/10 by Jocelyn LYou can't go wrong with dancing laundry.
User Review - 8/10 by Garland GThe storyline doesn't really resolve itself, but the dance sequences are amazing, so I didn't mind.
User Review - 8/10 by Rick MOne of the great Warner Bros. Musicals of the Early 1930's. The ending sequence has some wonderful Busby Berkley dance numbers!

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