Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

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

Cast

Laverne Andrews

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Maxene Andrews

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Patty Andrews

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Fred Astaire

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Warner Baxter

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Wallace Beery

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Brooks Benedict

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Constance Bennett

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Jack Benny

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Busby Berkeley

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Irving Berlin

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Willie Best

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Herman Bing

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Joan Blondell

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Humphrey Bogart

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Fanny Brice

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Joe E. Brown

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James Burke

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James Cagney

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Eddie Cantor

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Hobart Cavanaugh

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George Chandler

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Charlie Chaplin

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Spencer Charters

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Winston Churchill

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Mae Clarke

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Betty Compson

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Gary Cooper

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Jackie Cooper

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Joan Crawford

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Bing Crosby

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Frankie Darro

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William B. Davidson

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Cecil B. DeMille

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John Dillinger

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Walt Disney

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Marie Dressler

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Tom Dugan

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Margaret Dumont

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James Dunn

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Irene Dunne

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Jimmy Durante

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Nelson Eddy

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Cliff Edwards

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Bill Elliott

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Madge Evans

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Alice Faye

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Stepin Fetchit

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W.C. Fields

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Errol Flynn

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Dick Foran

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Gerald Ford

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Preston Foster

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Kay Francis

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Clark Gable

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Judy Garland

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Janet Gaynor

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George Gershwin

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Benny Goodman

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Cary Grant

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Woody Guthrie

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Oliver Hardy

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Jean Harlow

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George 'Gabby' Hayes

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Katharine Hepburn

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Billie Holiday

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Herbert Hoover

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J. Edgar Hoover

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Bob Hope

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William Hopper

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Walter Huston

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Al Jolson

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Boris Karloff

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Ruby Keeler

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Jacqueline Kennedy

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John F. Kennedy

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Fiorello LaGuardia

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Hedy Lamarr

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Stan Laurel

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Gypsy Rose Lee

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Vivien Leigh

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Carole Lombard

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Joe Louis

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Myrna Loy

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Bela Lugosi

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Douglas MacArthur

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Jeanette MacDonald

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Fredric March

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Chico Marx

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Groucho Marx

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Harpo Marx

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Ethel Merman

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Grant Mitchell

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Paul Muni

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Harold Nicholas

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Fayard Nicholas

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Pat Nixon

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Richard Nixon

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