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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

57 %|Aug 6, 1975|Documentary, History

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

Featured Crew

Philippe Mora
Director
Philippe Mora
Writer
Jeremy Thomas
Editor
Sanford Lieberson
Producer
David Puttnam
Producer
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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Cast

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Laverne Andrews
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Maxene Andrews
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Patty Andrews
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Fred Astaire
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Warner Baxter
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Wallace Beery
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Brooks Benedict
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Constance Bennett
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Jack Benny
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Busby Berkeley
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Irving Berlin
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Willie Best
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Herman Bing
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Joan Blondell
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Humphrey Bogart
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Fanny Brice
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Joe E. Brown
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James Burke
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James Cagney
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Eddie Cantor
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Hobart Cavanaugh
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George Chandler
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Charlie Chaplin
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Spencer Charters
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Winston Churchill
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Mae Clarke
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Betty Compson
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Gary Cooper
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Jackie Cooper
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Joan Crawford
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Bing Crosby
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Frankie Darro
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William B. Davidson
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Cecil B. DeMille
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John Dillinger
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Walt Disney
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Marie Dressler
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Tom Dugan
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Margaret Dumont
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James Dunn
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Irene Dunne
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Jimmy Durante
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Nelson Eddy
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Cliff Edwards
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Bill Elliott
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Madge Evans
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Alice Faye
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Stepin Fetchit
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W.C. Fields
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Errol Flynn
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Dick Foran
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Gerald Ford
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Preston Foster
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Kay Francis
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Clark Gable
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Judy Garland
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Janet Gaynor
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George Gershwin
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Benny Goodman
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Cary Grant
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Woody Guthrie
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Oliver Hardy
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Jean Harlow
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George 'Gabby' Hayes
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Katharine Hepburn
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Billie Holiday
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Herbert Hoover
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J. Edgar Hoover
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Bob Hope
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William Hopper
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Walter Huston
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Al Jolson
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Boris Karloff
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Ruby Keeler
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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John F. Kennedy
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Fiorello LaGuardia
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Hedy Lamarr
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Stan Laurel
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Gypsy Rose Lee
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Vivien Leigh
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Carole Lombard
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Joe Louis
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Myrna Loy
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Bela Lugosi
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Douglas MacArthur
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Jeanette MacDonald
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Fredric March
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Chico Marx
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Groucho Marx
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Harpo Marx
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Ethel Merman
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Grant Mitchell
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Paul Muni
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Harold Nicholas
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Fayard Nicholas
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Pat Nixon
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Richard Nixon
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Jesse Owens
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Dick Powell
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Eleanor Powell
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William Powell
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Tyrone Power
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George Raft
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Paul Robeson
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Dewey Robinson
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Edward G. Robinson
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Ginger Rogers
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Will Rogers
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Mickey Rooney
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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James Roosevelt
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Cliff Saum
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Max Schmeling
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Kate Smith
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Barbara Stanwyck
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James Stewart
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Shirley Temple
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Spencer Tracy
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Harry S. Truman
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Rudy Vallee
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Ethel Waters
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John Wayne
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Johnny Weissmüller
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Orson Welles
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Mae West
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Harlow Wilcox
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Walter Winchell
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Fay Wray
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Loretta Young
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Tammany Young
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