That’s how you know a woman had something to do with writing a fight between two women: we get dirty with it (yanking hair, boob punching, etc. )
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@MatthewTitus88 it was probably put in the film b/c the props department couldn’t stand to look at it any longer
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Not gonna lie, I’d briefly forgotten that men were a part of this story
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Maureen O’Hara in Dorothy Arnzer’s “Dance, Girl, Dance”(1940)(https://youtu.be/DjTf1QK7gqU?si=XwhXyqYGKUEfCZ4y) walked so that America Ferrera in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”(2023) (https://youtu.be/CBqlDWHkdHk?si=P3JDZro9__B0NCaQ) could exist
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Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) - Judy scolds the audience and the melee ensues.

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Dorothy Arzner replaced Roy Del Ruth as the director of “Dance, Girl, Dance” (1940) and made radical changes to the script. This shifted the story from being a usual movie musical to a feminist examination of musicals
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Unlike, a lot of stars of the era Lucille Ball did all of her own singing in “Dance, Girl, Dance”
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Raining in the movie AND outside my window! Drink!
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@MatthewTitus88 It’s weird to see Ralph Bellamy as someone romanic
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@MatthewTitus88 but if they can make it there- they might be able to even make it in Toledo or even Cleveland😱
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