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The Dancing Cavalier

by Don Lockwood, Cosmo Brown, and Kathy Selden, directed by Roscoe Dexter
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  The Dancing Cavalier (née 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!
DEBUT
The Dancing Cavalier (premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, California early May 1928).
VARIANTS
2 English variants
TAGS(SPOILERS!)
Time Periods Time Travel Methods
  • Timeslips: Cosmo initially says that it’s a dream, but we are still holding out hope that it’s a timeslip from the bump on the head.
Themes Real-World Tags
TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)
  1. From Broadway, 1920s ⋙ to France, 1700s. Round trip. Note: bump on the head.
INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)
  • Credits—If you haven’t seen <i>Singin’ in the Rain,</i> by all means get thee to a theater and do so now, so you can meet Don Lockwood, Cosmo Brown, Kathy Seldon, and Rosco Dexter who created <i>The Dancing Cavalier.</i> We also record the original writers (<a href='Betty_Comden'>Betty Comden</a> and <a href='Adolph_Green'>Adolph Green</a>) and directors (<a href='Stanley_Donen'>Stanley Donen</a> and <a href='Gene_Kelly'>Gene Kelly</a>) of <i>Singin’ in the Rain</i> as hidden creators of <i>The Dancing Cavalier.</i>
  • Release—According to <i>Singin’ in the Rain,</i> production of <i>The Dueling Cavalier</i> was underway during the October 1927 release of <i>The Jazz Singer,</i> and it had a disasterous preview on March 23 (presumably of 1928). At that point, they had just six weeks to finish the film, so we’ve marked the release date of <i>The Dancing Cavalier</i> as being in <samp>early May 1928</samp> (which also matches <i>https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TheDancingCavalier]TV Tropes’</i> note that this is a 1928 film).