Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

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

IMDb rating	7.1
Producers	Goodtimes Enterprises
Original title	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Directors	Philippe Mora
Writers	Philippe Mora

Cast

Laverne Andrews

as Self (archive footage)

Maxene Andrews

as Self (archive footage)

Patty Andrews

as Self (archive footage)

Fred Astaire

as Self (archive footage)

Warner Baxter

as Self (archive footage)

Wallace Beery

as Self (archive footage)

Brooks Benedict

as Self (archive footage)

Constance Bennett

as Self (archive footage)

Jack Benny

as Self (archive footage)

Busby Berkeley

as Self (archive footage)

Irving Berlin

as Self (archive footage)

Willie Best

as Self (archive footage)

Herman Bing

as Self (archive footage)

Joan Blondell

as Self (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart

as Self (archive footage)

Fanny Brice

as Self (archive footage)

Joe E. Brown

as Self (archive footage)

James Burke

as Self (archive footage)

James Cagney

as Self (archive footage)

Eddie Cantor

as Self (archive footage)

Hobart Cavanaugh

as Self (archive footage)

George Chandler

as Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

as Self (archive footage)

Spencer Charters

as Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

as Self (archive footage)

Mae Clarke

as Self (archive footage)

Betty Compson

as Self (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

as Self (archive footage)

Jackie Cooper

as Self (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

as Self (archive footage)

Bing Crosby

as Self (archive footage)

Frankie Darro

as Self (archive footage)

William B. Davidson

as Self (archive footage)

Cecil B. DeMille

as Self (archive footage)

John Dillinger

as Self (archive footage)

Walt Disney

as Self (archive footage)

Marie Dressler

as Self (archive footage)

Tom Dugan

as Self (archive footage)

Margaret Dumont

as Self (archive footage)

James Dunn

as Self (archive footage)

Irene Dunne

as Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Durante

as Self (archive footage)

Nelson Eddy

as Self (archive footage)

Cliff Edwards

as Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

as Self (archive footage)

Bill Elliott

as Self (archive footage)

Madge Evans

as Self (archive footage)

Alice Faye

as Self (archive footage)

Stepin Fetchit

as Self (archive footage)

W.C. Fields

as Self (archive footage)

Errol Flynn

as Self (archive footage)

Dick Foran

as Self (archive footage)

Gerald Ford

as Self (archive footage)

Preston Foster

as Self (archive footage)

Kay Francis

as Self (archive footage)

Clark Gable

as Self (archive footage)

Judy Garland

as Self (archive footage)

Janet Gaynor

as Self (archive footage)

George Gershwin

as Self (archive footage)

Benny Goodman

as Self (archive footage)

Cary Grant

as Self (archive footage)

Woody Guthrie

as Self (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy

as Self (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

as Self (archive footage)

George 'Gabby' Hayes

as Self (archive footage)

Katharine Hepburn

as Self (archive footage)

Billie Holiday

as Self (archive footage)

Herbert Hoover

as Self (archive footage)

J. Edgar Hoover

as Self (archive footage)

Bob Hope

as Self (archive footage)

William Hopper

as Self (archive footage)

Walter Huston

as Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

as Self (archive footage)

Al Jolson

as Self (archive footage)

Boris Karloff

as Self (archive footage)

Ruby Keeler

as Self (archive footage)

Jacqueline Kennedy

as Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

as Self (archive footage)

Fiorello LaGuardia

as Self (archive footage)

Hedy Lamarr

as Self (archive footage)

Stan Laurel

as Self (archive footage)

Gypsy Rose Lee

as Self (archive footage)

Vivien Leigh

as Self (archive footage)

Carole Lombard

as Self (archive footage)

Joe Louis

as Self (archive footage)

Myrna Loy

as Self (archive footage)

Bela Lugosi

as Self (archive footage)

Douglas MacArthur

as Self (archive footage)

Jeanette MacDonald

as Self (archive footage)

Fredric March

as Self (archive footage)

Chico Marx

as Self (archive footage)

Groucho Marx

as Self (archive footage)

Harpo Marx

as Self (archive footage)

Ethel Merman

as Self (archive footage)

Grant Mitchell

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Muni

as Self (archive footage)

Harold Nicholas

as Self (archive footage)

Fayard Nicholas

as Self (archive footage)

Pat Nixon

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

as Self (archive footage)

Jesse Owens

as Self (archive footage)

Dick Powell

as Self (archive footage)

Eleanor Powell

as Self (archive footage)

William Powell

as Self (archive footage)

Tyrone Power

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George Raft

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Robeson

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Dewey Robinson

as Self (archive footage)

Edward G. Robinson

as Self (archive footage)

Ginger Rogers

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Will Rogers

as Self (archive footage)

Mickey Rooney

as Self (archive footage)

Eleanor Roosevelt

as Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

as Self (archive footage)

James Roosevelt

as Self (archive footage)

Cliff Saum

as Self (archive footage)

Max Schmeling

as Self (archive footage)

Kate Smith

as Self (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck

as Self (archive footage)

James Stewart

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Shirley Temple

as Self (archive footage)

Spencer Tracy

as Self (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman

as Self (archive footage)

Rudy Vallee

as Self (archive footage)

Ethel Waters

as Self (archive footage)

John Wayne

as Self (archive footage)

Johnny Weissmüller

as Self (archive footage)

Orson Welles

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Mae West

as Self (archive footage)

Harlow Wilcox

as Self (archive footage)

Walter Winchell

as Self (archive footage)

Fay Wray

as Self (archive footage)

Loretta Young

as Self (archive footage)

Tammany Young

as Self (archive footage)