Dance, Girl, Dance
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Dance, Girl, Dance -- Creaky melodrama about an aspiring dancer (Maureen O'Hara) who takes a job in a burlesque show as the comic stooge of its spiteful star (Lucille Ball), then a wealthy playboy (Louis Hayward) breaks her heart before her talent is discovered by an uptown impresario (Ralph Bellamy). Directed by Dorothy Arzner, the formula story has dated badly but the women characters are interesting period types and O'Hara has a classic scene in which she stops her burlesque routine to blast the male spectators for degrading women. Stylized violence, sexual innuendo, alcoholic excess and light treatment of marriage. (A-III) (br) 1940
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.