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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (film)

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'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?' is a 1975 documentary film directed by Philippe Mora,[https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film526327.html FilmAffinity] consisting largely of newsreel footage and contemporary film clips to portray the era of the Great Depression.[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414545/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime#overview Turner Classic Movies][https://mubi.com/films/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime MUBI]

Summary



The film serves as a nostalgic and evocative scrapbook of the Depression from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to the Attack on Pearl Harbor.[https://www.timeout.com/london/film/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime TimeOut][https://www.fullframefest.org/film/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime/ Full Frame Documentary Film Festival][https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28040155?seq=46 Los Angeles Press on JSTOR (Vol. 12, Issue 578, 08-15-1975, pg.22)]

Cast



* The Andrews Sisters

* Fred Astaire

* Warner Baxter

* Jack Benny

* Busby Berkeley

* Willie Best

* Humphrey Bogart

* George Burns

* James Cagney

* Cab Calloway

* Eddie Cantor

* Hobart Cavanaugh

* George Chandler

* Charlie Chaplin

* Winston Churchill

* Betty Compson

* Gary Cooper

* Bing Crosby

* Frankie Darro

* Cecil B. DeMille

* Marlene Dietrich

* John Dillinger

* Walt Disney

* James Dunn

* Cliff Edwards

* Dwight D. Eisenhower

* Bill Elliot

* Madge Evans

* Stepin Fetchit

* W. C. Fields

* Dick Foran

* Gerald Ford

* Clark Gable

* Benny Goodman

* Cary Grant

* Woody Guthrie

* Gabby Hayes

* Billie Holiday

* Herbert Hoover

* J. Edgar Hoover

* Paul Robeson

* Shirley Temple

[https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/08/archives/can-you-spare-a-dime-evokes-1930s.html NY Times][https://www.allmovie.com/movie/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime-v158926/review AllMovie Review][https://www.loc.gov/item/jots.200014132/ BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?-Library of Congress][https://www.tvguide.com/movies/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime/review/2000088676/ TV Guide][https://www.doblu.com/2019/10/30/can-you-spare-a-dime-blu-ray-review/ Doblu.com]

Selected films featured



*'King Kong'[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime-1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Movie Review| Roger Ebert]

*'I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang'[https://www.allmovie.com/movie/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime-v158926 AllMovie]

*'Citizen Kane'

*'Wild Boys of the Road'[https://trailersfromhell.com/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime/ DVD Review on Trailers from Hell]

*'The Roaring Twenties'

*'American Madness'

*'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'

Accolades



1976: Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film[https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/brother-can-you-spare-dime Golden Globes]

Availability



A DVD from Image Entertainment was released in 1999 and again in 2018 by Artiflix.

It is available on DVD and Blu-Ray via The Sprocket Vault.

See also



'All This and World War II', a similar 1976 'scrapbook' documentary about World War II scored to music of the Beatles.

References




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