Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (film)
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Directed byPhilippe Mora
Written byPhilippe Mora
Produced byDavid Puttnam
Sandy Lieberson
Sandy Lieberson
Edited byJeremy Thomas
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | |
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 Image Entertainment 1999 DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Philippe Mora |
| Written by | Philippe Mora |
| Produced by | David Puttnam Sandy Lieberson |
| Edited by | Jeremy Thomas |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Visual Programme Systems Ltd. Dimension Pictures (US) |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 min. |
| Countries | United Kingdom United States[1][2] |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.4 million[3] |
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is a 1975 documentary film directed by Philippe Mora,[4] consisting largely of newsreel footage and contemporary film clips[5] to portray the era of the Great Depression.[6][7]
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.[8][9][10]
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
Selected films featured
Accolades
Home media
A DVD from Image Entertainment was released in 1999 and again in 2018 by Artiflix. It was also released on DVD and Blu-Ray via The Sprocket Vault.[18]