Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is a 1975 documentary film directed by Philippe Mora,FilmAffinity consisting largely of newsreel footage and contemporary film clipsDocumentary Films – filmsite.org to portray the era of the Great Depression.Turner Classic MoviesMUBIArtiflix
Summary 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.TimeOutFull Frame Documentary Film FestivalLos Angeles Press on JSTOR (Vol. 12, Issue 578, 08-15-1975, pg.22)
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 Lyndon B. Johnson John F. Kennedy Joe Louis Richard Nixon Paul Robeson Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt James Stewart Shirley Temple
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Selected films featured King KongBrother, Can You Spare a Dime? Movie Review| Roger Ebert I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Citizen Kane His Girl Friday Wild Boys of the RoadDVD Review on Trailers from HellBFI The Roaring Twenties American Madness Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Gold Diggers of 1933 Lady Killer G Men Hollywood Steps Out Stand Up and Cheer!
Accolades 1976: Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary FilmGolden Globes
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.
See also All This and World War II, a similar 1976 'scrapbook' documentary about World War II scored to the music of the Beatles. America, Lost and Found, a similar 1979 film essay also about the Depression years.
References
External links
Official website Excerpts from VCI's official YouTube channel