The Dancing Masters

The Dancing Masters is a 1943 film about two bumbling dance teachers who help an awkward inventor sell his new invention and facilitate his romance with a beautiful socialite.

Directed by Malcolm St. Clair. Written by William Scott Darling.

Do you want to learn to dance---with joy? Take a lesseon from Laurel and Hardy in "The Dancing Master," their latest screen scream! (taglines)

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Dialogue

Trudy Harlan: You boys believe that Grant has a great future as an inventor, don't you?

Oliver Hardy: Well, I believe that Grant'll be an inventor of the first rank.

Stan Laurel: What's rank?

Oliver Hardy: You are! SHUT UP!

Stan Laurel: I don't mind starvin' again.

Oliver Hardy: It's all right with me.

Stan Laurel: You know you can't keep an egg in two baskets. That's silly... unless you want to scramble them. I wouldn't be that stupid, you know. I knew a fella once that he had some money in the bank, and he wouldn't draw it out. And, you know what? He lost his job, and still he wouldn't draw it out. Then he starved to death - that killed him. And then he died, and after he was dead. A friend of his got all his money, and he drewed it out of the bank. and I could live happily ever after. Yes, sir!

Oliver Hardy: [with disgust] You make me sick!

Stan Laurel: Well, we've all got to live and learn, you know.

Oliver Hardy: Yeah, but you just live!

Stan Laurel: [posing as a foreign scientist] Alakazam bazooka. Smorgasbord.^[1]

[Oliver shoves Stan in frustration.]

Oliver Hardy: [mimicking Stan disgustedly] "Smorgasbord!"^[2]

[Stan and Oliver are housecleaning. The doorbell rings. Stan picks up the phone.]

Oliver Hardy: [with disgust] It's the doorbell, stupid!^[3]

STAN LAUREL: "The harder they fall, the bigger I am !"

BUTLER (to Wentworth Harlan): "Mr.Harlan,this is really most important. Your house is on fire !"

Taglines

Do you want to learn to dance---with joy? Take a lesson from Laurel and Hardy in "The Dancing Master," their latest screen scream!

Cast

Stan Laurel — Stanley
Oliver Hardy — Oliver
Trudy Marshall — Trudy Harlan
Robert Bailey — Grant Lawrence
Matt Briggs — Wentworth Harlan
Margaret Dumont — Louise Harlan
Allan Lane — George Worthing

References

External links

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The Dancing Masters quotes at the Internet Movie Database

[1] Neibaur, James L. "Laurel and Hardy Collection, Vol. 2 (2006)." Rogue Cinema.

[2] Laurel and Hardy, The Dancing Masters, 1943 (B&W), Part 4, YouTube

[3] Laurel and Hardy, The Dancing Masters, 1943 (B&W), Part 3, YouTube

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