So You Want to Learn to Dance
1953 film by Richard Bare
- March 28, 1953 (1953-03-28)
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So You Want to Learn to Dance is a 1953 American black and white short comedy film co-produced, written and directed by Richard Bare.[1] It stars George O'Hanlon as Joe McDoakes.[2]
Synopsis
Joe McDoakes is invited by his boss to a swanky dance. Joe admits he can't dance and the boss gives him a lesson in the office. At the dance, Joe is a social failure and makes many mistakes while dancing with his boss' wife. Joe goes to a dancing school and becomes a big success.
Cast
- George O'Hanlon as Joe McDoakes
- Steve Carruthers, James Gonzalez, Jack Mower, Suzanne Ridgway, Cosmo Sardo and Bert L. Stevens as Dance Attendees
- Jesslyn Fax as Dance Instructress
- Creighton Hale as Barber
- Emory Parnell as George Blivens - Joe's Boss
In popular culture
A segment of the short, in particular including O'Hanlon and Ridgway, is featured in the 1990 Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Animaniacs!" (not to be confused with the similarly titled animated series that ran from 1993–98).
References
External links
- So You Want to Learn to Dance at IMDb
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Works directed by Richard L. Bare
- Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948)
- Flaxy Martin (1949)
- The House Across the Street (1949)
- Return of the Frontiersman (1950)
- This Side of the Law (1950)
- Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
- Girl on the Run (1958)
- I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew (1969)
- Wicked, Wicked (1973)
television series
- Joe McDoakes (1942–1956)
- So You Want to Learn to Dance (1953)
- The Twilight Zone
- "Third from the Sun" (1960)
- "The Purple Testament" (1960)
- "Nick of Time" (1960)
- "The Prime Mover" (1961)
- "To Serve Man" (1962)
- "The Fugitive" (1962)
- "What's in the Box" (1964)
- Green Acres (1965–1971)
