We Were Dancing

• Director: Robert Z. Leonard
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Comedy
• Main Cast: Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Lee Bowman, Marjorie Main
• Release Year: 1942
• Country: US
• Run Time: 95 minutes

Plot

Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We Were Dancing. Loosely based on two Noel Coward playlets originally presented as part of the omnibus production Tonight at 8:30, the story concerns the romance between socialite Vicki Wilomirsky (Norma Shearer) and Nicki Prax (Melvyn Douglas), an impoverished baron who supports himself as a "professional guest." Nicki steals Vicki away from her stuffy attorney fiance Hubert Tyler (Lee Bowman), but their subsequent marriage comes to an end when Vicki spots Nicki in the arms of his ex-lover Linda Wayne (Gail Patrick). Returning to Tyler, Vicki is on the verge of a second marriage, when Nicki once again waltzes into her life?.and on and on it goes, where it will stop, nobody knows. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Norma Shearer - Vicki Wilomirsky
• Melvyn Douglas - Nicki Prax
• Gail Patrick - Linda Wayne
• Lee Bowman - Hubert Tyler
• Marjorie Main - Judge Sidney Hawkes

Reginald Owen - Maj. Tyler-Blane; Alan Mowbray - Grand Duke Basil; Florence Bates - Mrs. Vanderlip; Heather Thatcher - Mrs. Tyler-Blane; Connie Gilchrist - Olive Ransome; Dennis Hoey - Prince Wilomirsky; Sig Rumann - Baron Prax; Nella Walker - Mrs. Bentley; Philip Ahn - Chinaman; Richard Alexander - Moving Man; Polly Bailey - Flower Woman; Barlowe Borland - McDonough; Willy Castello - Felucci; Gino Corrado - Headwaiter in Inn; Dick Elliott - Mr. Platt; Jean Fenwick - Girl; Mary Forbes - Mrs. Sandys; Ava Gardner - Bit Part; Alfred Hall - Butler; Thurston Hall - Sen. Quimby; Harry Hayden - Clerk; Russell Hicks - Bryce-Carew; John Holland; Anthony Marsh - Tommy Brooke; Helene Millard - Mrs. Lambert; Harold Minjir - Beverly; Alan Napier - Capt. Blackstone; Ottola Nesmith - Mrs. Quimby; Jessica Newcombe - Mrs. Platt; Lionel Pape - Englishman; Alex Pollard - Ransome's Butler; Paul Porcasi - Manager of Duquesne; Herbert Rawlinson - Friend; George H. Reed - Butler at Blane's House; Duncan Renaldo - Sam Estrella; John Roche - Mr. Fox; Henry Roquemore - Mr. Ransome; Fred Santley - Clerk; Florence Shirley - Mrs. Charteris; Charles Sullivan - Train Announcer; Norma Varden - Mrs. Bryce-Carew; Emmett Vogan - Bailiff; Pierre Watkin - Mr. Bentley; Ian Wolfe - Reggie; Douglas Wood - Col. Sandys; Bryant Washburn - Mr. Lambert; Martin Turner - Red Cap; Alex Callam - Clerk; Esther Michelson - Headwaiter's Wife; Jacques Vanaire - Beverly's Assistant; Florence Wix - Sporting Woman; Meeka Aldrich - Housemaid; Bill Fisher - Train Conductor; John Piffle - Dutchman; John Buddy Williams - Red Cap; Tim Ryan - Traffic Cop

Credit

Daniel B. Cathcart - Art Director, Cedric Gibbons - Art Director, Adrian - Costume Designer, Robert Kalloch - Costume Designer, Robert Z. Leonard - Director, George Boemler - Editor, Bronislau Kaper - Composer (Music Score), Robert Planck - Cinematographer, Orville O. Dull - Producer, Robert Z. Leonard - Producer, Edwin B. Willis - Set Designer, Douglas Shearer - Sound/Sound Designer, George Froeschel - Screenwriter, Claudine West - Screenwriter, Hans Rameau - Screenwriter, Noël Coward - Play Author

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