Of course, this early talkie shouldn't be in our list because the writer himself—
as Cosmo Brown—says it’s all just a dream, but when one of our
correspondents pointed out that none other than
Don Lockwood and
Lina Lamont starred in Â
The Dancing Cavalier (nĂ©eÂ
The Dueling Cavalier), we
couldn’t resist. Note: Lina Lamont’s voice was dubbed over by writer
Kathy Selden, but due to Lamont’s underhanded ploys, Selden went
uncredited in the original release.
— Dora Bailey
How’s this? We throw a modern section into the picture. The hero’s a young hoofer in
a Broadway show, right? Now he sings and he dances, right? But one night backstage,
he’s reading A Tale of Two Cities, in between numbers, see? And a sandbag falls and
hits him on the head, and he dreams he’s back during the French Revolution, right?
Well, this way we get in the modern dancing numbers—♫Charleston, Charleston♫—but
in the dream part, we can still use the costume stuff!