Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

The lean, mean 30's, when America laughed… to keep from crying!

1975 en 107 minutes

Rating: 5.7

Plot

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

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Cast

Laverne Andrews

Laverne Andrews

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Maxene Andrews

Maxene Andrews

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Patty Andrews

Patty Andrews

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

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Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter

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Wallace Beery

Wallace Beery

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Brooks Benedict

Brooks Benedict

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Constance Bennett

Constance Bennett

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Jack Benny

Jack Benny

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Busby Berkeley

Busby Berkeley

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Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin

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Willie Best

Willie Best

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Herman Bing

Herman Bing

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Joan Blondell

Joan Blondell

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart

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Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice

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Joe E. Brown

Joe E. Brown

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James Burke

James Burke

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James Cagney

James Cagney

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Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor

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Hobart Cavanaugh

Hobart Cavanaugh

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George Chandler

George Chandler

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Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

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Spencer Charters

Spencer Charters

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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Mae Clarke

Mae Clarke

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Betty Compson

Betty Compson

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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

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Jackie Cooper

Jackie Cooper

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Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford

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Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby

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Frankie Darro

Frankie Darro

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William B. Davidson

William B. Davidson

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Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille

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John Dillinger

John Dillinger

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Walt Disney

Walt Disney

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Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler

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Tom Dugan

Tom Dugan

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Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

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James Dunn

James Dunn

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Irene Dunne

Irene Dunne

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Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Durante

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Nelson Eddy

Nelson Eddy

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Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Bill Elliott

Bill Elliott

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Madge Evans

Madge Evans

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Alice Faye

Alice Faye

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Stepin Fetchit

Stepin Fetchit

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W.C. Fields

W.C. Fields

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Errol Flynn

Errol Flynn

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Dick Foran

Dick Foran

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Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford

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Preston Foster

Preston Foster

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Kay Francis

Kay Francis

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Clark Gable

Clark Gable

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Judy Garland

Judy Garland

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Janet Gaynor

Janet Gaynor

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George Gershwin

George Gershwin

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Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

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Cary Grant

Cary Grant

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Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie

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Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy

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Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow

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George 'Gabby' Hayes

George 'Gabby' Hayes

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

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J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

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Bob Hope

Bob Hope

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William Hopper

William Hopper

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Walter Huston

Walter Huston

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Al Jolson

Al Jolson

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Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

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Ruby Keeler

Ruby Keeler

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Jacqueline Kennedy

Jacqueline Kennedy

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John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

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Fiorello LaGuardia

Fiorello LaGuardia

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr

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Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel

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Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy Rose Lee

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Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh

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Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard

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Joe Louis

Joe Louis

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Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy

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Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

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Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur

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Jeanette MacDonald

Jeanette MacDonald

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Fredric March

Fredric March

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Chico Marx

Chico Marx

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Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx

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Harpo Marx

Harpo Marx

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Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman

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Grant Mitchell

Grant Mitchell

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Paul Muni

Paul Muni

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Harold Nicholas

Harold Nicholas

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Fayard Nicholas

Fayard Nicholas

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Pat Nixon

Pat Nixon

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Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens

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Dick Powell

Dick Powell

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Eleanor Powell

Eleanor Powell

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William Powell

William Powell

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Tyrone Power

Tyrone Power

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George Raft

George Raft

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Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson

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Dewey Robinson

Dewey Robinson

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Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson

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Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers

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Will Rogers

Will Rogers

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Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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James Roosevelt

James Roosevelt

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Cliff Saum

Cliff Saum

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Max Schmeling

Max Schmeling

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Kate Smith

Kate Smith

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Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck

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James Stewart

James Stewart

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Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple

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Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

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Rudy Vallee

Rudy Vallee

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Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters

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John Wayne

John Wayne

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Johnny Weissmüller

Johnny Weissmüller

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Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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Mae West

Mae West

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Harlow Wilcox

Harlow Wilcox

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Walter Winchell

Walter Winchell

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Fay Wray

Fay Wray

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Loretta Young

Loretta Young

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Tammany Young

Tammany Young

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