The Dancing Millionaire (1934) User Reviews

Tom Kennedy versus Grady Sutton....sounds like a fair match-up!

[planktonrules · 5/10 · 11 March 2019]

"The Dancing Millionaire" is enjoyable but undemanding fare. In other words, the jokes are not especially deep and often rely on slapstick gags. Decent...but hardly a film I'd quickly recommend.

Crusher McGee and his manager on their way to Crusher's wrestling match. However, there's a fender-bender and soon McGee slaps around the chauffeur and the guy from the other car. The cops get involved and McGee is jailed...missing his fight.

After getting out of jail, naturally McGee is in a foul mood. Imagine how much worse he'll feel if he finds out that his girlfriend it out with another man. And, imagine how much worse yet then it turns out to be one of the guys he slugged earlier in the story! Can the girlfriend and her pal manage to keep McGee from the awful truth?

The film is mildly enjoyable and culminates with a clever impromptu wrestling match between Grady Sutton (who always seems to play milquetoast characters) and Kennedy.

Dancing with Tom Kennedy

[boblipton · 5/10 · 27 May 2018]

In the eighth installment of RKO's "The Blondes and the Redheads" series, wrestler Tom Kennedy comes to visit sweetie Dorothy Granger at the dancing academy before heading off to his big match. On leaving, he crashes his car into millionaire Grady Sutton's limo and is hauled off to jail, vowing vengeance. Sutton and his chauffeur go to the academy and take Dorothy and Carol Tevis to a night club. Guess who shows up?

This series, which had started out as a much bluer version of Roach's GIRL FRIENDS series, was fast losing its zip under the strictures of the Production Code, although there are a couple of jokes that wouldn't pass muster a few years after. There's decent comic timing under the direction of Sam White, but none of the snap that the earlier episodes under George Stevens had shown. Still, there are several reliable film comics in small bits, including Jack Rice and Billy Franey, not to mention Tom Kennedy, who had once been a boxer until he had gotten into the movies as a comic, specializing in big, dumb fighters.

Blondes, redheads, lollipops and gangsters, oh my!

[mark.waltz · 4/10 · 24 July 2015]

This "Blondes and Redheads" short is not as funny as the two previous shorts on the Alpha video DVD, and it seems to be a combination the lack of a real story and the changing of director from George Stevens to Sammy White. Dorothy Granger has taken over the role of the "redhead" from June Brewster and is acceptable, while Carol Tevis back fracturing the English language as the stereotypical squeaky voiced dumb blonde. It all involves clumsy millionaire Grady Sutton trying to learn how to dance and hiring the girls for lessons which leads him to being harassed and chased by a rather bullyish thug (Tom Kennedy) and ending up in an impromptu boxing ring. Of course, Sutton isn't as nebbishy as he appears to be, showing Kennedy quite by accident that he has more than what it takes to stand on his own and stand up for himself. Even with that theme there, it's not as hysterical as the other three entries that I've seen and comes off as rather ordinary.