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* LegFocus: In the "Broadway Ballet" extravaganza, the Dancer's entrance is marked by her slowly handing Don his hat back after he drops it... using one of her very long, very beautiful legs to do it.
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* ShesGotLegs: In the "Broadway Ballet" extravaganza, the Dancer's entrance is marked by her slowly handing Don his hat back after he drops it... using one of her very long, very beautiful legs to do it.
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* TheCastShowoff: Don Lockwood demonstrated his singing and dancing talents for the first time on the big screen.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Monumental Pictures has already begun filming the project as a silent movie, with the WorkingTitle ''The Dueling Caviler'', by the time Creator/WarnerBros' success with ''Film/TheJazzSinger'' prompted Monumental head R.F. Simpson to green light his own string of talking pictures. Consequently, Roscoe and the cast had to reshoot everything they already filmed.
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* FollowTheLeader: One of several musicals Monumental Pictures released after Creator/WarnerBros' success with ''Film/TheJazzSinger''.
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* FollowTheLeader: One of several musicals Monumental Pictures released after Creator/WarnerBros' success with ''Film/TheJazzSinger''.to cash-in on ''The Jazz Singer''.
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* WorkingTitle: ''The Dueling Cavalier'', back when Monumental didn't plan to include any songs in the movie.
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* WorkingTitle: WhatCouldHaveBeen: Monumental's first attempt to reshoot ''The Dueling Cavalier'', back when Monumental Cavalier'' with audio didn't plan to include contain any songs in musical numbers, and retained Lamont's naturally squeaky voice. At the test screening, the cheesy dialogue, hammy acting, and poor audio mixing received so much ridicule, that Monumental ended up filming yet another version of the movie.
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* FollowTheLeader: One of several musicals Monumental Pictures released after Creator/WarnerBros' success with ''Film/TheJazzSinger''.
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* WorkingTitle: ''The Dueling Cavalier'', back when Monumental didn't plan to include any songs in the movie.
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Removing my head cannon
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* SameLanguageDub: Kathy Selden for Lina Lamont. Due to ExecutiveMeddling on Lamont's part, Selden's name didn't appear in the credits until during the movie's theatrical re-releases.
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* SameLanguageDub: Kathy Selden for Lina Lamont. Due to ExecutiveMeddling on Lamont's part, Selden's name didn't appear in the credits until during when the movie's theatrical re-releases.movie premiered.
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* TheVoiceless: The Dancer makes virtually no sound at all in both her two appearances.
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* TheVoiceless: The Dancer makes virtually no sound at all in both her two appearances.appearances.
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* SameLanguageDub: Kathy Selden for Lina Lamont. Due to ExecutiveMeddling on Lamont's part, Selden's name didn't appear in the credits until after the movie's theatrical re-releases.
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* SameLanguageDub: Kathy Selden for Lina Lamont. Due to ExecutiveMeddling on Lamont's part, Selden's name didn't appear in the credits until after during the movie's theatrical re-releases.
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* SameLanguageDub: Kathy Selden for Lina Lamont. Due to ExecutiveMeddling, her name didn't appear in the credits until after the movie's theatrical re-releases.
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* SameLanguageDub: Kathy Selden for Lina Lamont. Due to ExecutiveMeddling, her ExecutiveMeddling on Lamont's part, Selden's name didn't appear in the credits until after the movie's theatrical re-releases.
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* DastardlyWhiplash: Rouge Noir.
-->"Pierre is miles away, you wench!"
* DisneyDeath: Pierre has one after Yvonne finds him unconscious and injured.
-->"Pierre is miles away, you wench!"
* DisneyDeath: Pierre has one after Yvonne finds him unconscious and injured.
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: Don's character's love interest for the opening is the flirtatious moll of a mute, coin-flipping mobster with a scarred face, a la UsefulNotes/AlCapone. His goons flip coins, too. Later, when the hoofer tries his luck with the dancer again, she answers him with a coin flip. Drat.
* GoldDigger: The Dancer loses interest in Don's character when her beau dangles a diamond necklace in front of her. The mobster's bored expression suggests this is becoming routine for him.
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* OffWithHisHead: Predictably for the time period, Yvonne warns Pierre that word of their meetings in the court could result in him getting sentenced to the guillotine, but he still risks it.
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* NerdGlasses: Don's character in the "Broadway Melody" sequence.
* OffWithHisHead: Predictably for the time period, Yvonne warns Pierre that word of their meetings in the court could result in him getting sentenced to the guillotine, but he still risksit.it.
* PimpedOutDress: The noblewomen's gowns fit the mold of 18th century dresses, being covered with frills and flowers (which isn't that far off from the real dresses of that time, except they were even more decorated).
* SameLanguageDub: Kathy Selden for Lina Lamont. Due to ExecutiveMeddling, her name didn't appear in the credits until after the movie's theatrical re-releases.
* SecondFaceSmoke: In the "Broadway Ballet" sequence, done to Don's character by the Dancer.
* ShesGotLegs: In the "Broadway Ballet" extravaganza, the Dancer's entrance is marked by her slowly handing Don his hat back after he drops it... using one of her very long, very beautiful legs to do it.
* SmokingIsGlamorous: The Dancer.
* TheVoiceless: The Dancer makes virtually no sound at all in both her two appearances.
* OffWithHisHead: Predictably for the time period, Yvonne warns Pierre that word of their meetings in the court could result in him getting sentenced to the guillotine, but he still risks
* PimpedOutDress: The noblewomen's gowns fit the mold of 18th century dresses, being covered with frills and flowers (which isn't that far off from the real dresses of that time, except they were even more decorated).
* SameLanguageDub: Kathy Selden for Lina Lamont. Due to ExecutiveMeddling, her name didn't appear in the credits until after the movie's theatrical re-releases.
* SecondFaceSmoke: In the "Broadway Ballet" sequence, done to Don's character by the Dancer.
* ShesGotLegs: In the "Broadway Ballet" extravaganza, the Dancer's entrance is marked by her slowly handing Don his hat back after he drops it... using one of her very long, very beautiful legs to do it.
* SmokingIsGlamorous: The Dancer.
* TheVoiceless: The Dancer makes virtually no sound at all in both her two appearances.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Pierre and Yvonne experience this.
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''The Dancing Cavalier'' is a 1928 movie musical from Monumental Pictures, starring Don Lockwood in his first "talkie", and Lina Lamont in a StarDerailingRole.
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''The Dancing Cavalier'' is a 1928 movie musical from Monumental Pictures, directed by Roscoe Dexter, and starring Don Lockwood in his first "talkie", and Lina Lamont in a StarDerailingRole.
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This film's behind-the-scenes retool from yet another Lamont and Lockwood silent CostumeDrama, to a splashy musical, resulted in a very TroubledProduction, as documented in ''Film/SinginInTheRain''.
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This film's [[Film/SinginInTheRain behind-the-scenes retool retool]] from yet another Lamont and Lockwood silent CostumeDrama, to a splashy musical, resulted in a very TroubledProduction, as documented in ''Film/SinginInTheRain''.TroubledProduction.
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Lockwood plays a singing and dancing hoofer, who rises to fame on Broadway. While reading ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'' backstage one night, a hit on the head from a sandbag knocks him into a dream set during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. There, he becomes the swashbuckling Pierre de Batille, and enters a forbidden romance with noblewoman Yvonne (Lamont, dubbed over by then-ingenue Kathy Selden).
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Lockwood plays a singing and dancing hoofer, who rises to fame on Broadway. While reading ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'' backstage one night, a hit on the head from a sandbag knocks him into a dream set during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. There, he becomes the swashbuckling Pierre de Batille, and enters a forbidden romance with noblewoman Yvonne (Lamont, dubbed over by then-ingenue a retroactively-credited Kathy Selden).
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->''"Nothing can keep us apart. Our love will last till the stars turn cold."''
-->--'''Yvonne'''
''The Dancing Cavalier'' is a 1928 movie musical from Monumental Pictures, starring Don Lockwood in his first "talkie", and Lina Lamont in a StarDerailingRole.
Lockwood plays a singing and dancing hoofer, who rises to fame on Broadway. While reading ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'' backstage one night, a hit on the head from a sandbag knocks him into a dream set during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. There, he becomes the swashbuckling Pierre de Batille, and enters a forbidden romance with noblewoman Yvonne (Lamont, dubbed over by then-ingenue Kathy Selden).
This film's behind-the-scenes retool from yet another Lamont and Lockwood silent CostumeDrama, to a splashy musical, resulted in a very TroubledProduction, as documented in ''Film/SinginInTheRain''.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: "Broadway Melody" involves the guy not getting the Dancer, who wasn't interested in him in the first place.
* ArrangedMarriage: Yvonne has one with the Baron de Landsfield, but would rather marry Pierre.
* DamselInDistress: Yvonne becomes this when she is kidnapped by Rouge Noir of the Purple Terror.
* DreamBallet: Once Don's character strikes it rich in the "Broadway Melody" sequence, he bumps into a dancer from a speakeasy a second time. In his imaginings, the dancer turns into a long-haired [[TheIngenue ingenue]] who flies into his arms; a far cry from the reality, which is a floozy.
* DreamSequence: The bulk of the movie comprises an extended dream sequence by Don's character, a stagehand who gets [[TapOnTheHead pasted by a falling sandbag]] and dreams himself in 17th century France.
* ForgottenFramingDevice: ''The Dancing Cavalier'' begins with a modern guy getting bumped on the head and dreaming he's in 17th century France, and ends with him still in 17th century France.
* LoveTheme: "Would You?" for Pierre and Yvonne.
* OffWithHisHead: Predictably for the time period, Yvonne warns Pierre that word of their meetings in the court could result in him getting sentenced to the guillotine, but he still risks it.
-->--'''Yvonne'''
''The Dancing Cavalier'' is a 1928 movie musical from Monumental Pictures, starring Don Lockwood in his first "talkie", and Lina Lamont in a StarDerailingRole.
Lockwood plays a singing and dancing hoofer, who rises to fame on Broadway. While reading ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'' backstage one night, a hit on the head from a sandbag knocks him into a dream set during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. There, he becomes the swashbuckling Pierre de Batille, and enters a forbidden romance with noblewoman Yvonne (Lamont, dubbed over by then-ingenue Kathy Selden).
This film's behind-the-scenes retool from yet another Lamont and Lockwood silent CostumeDrama, to a splashy musical, resulted in a very TroubledProduction, as documented in ''Film/SinginInTheRain''.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: "Broadway Melody" involves the guy not getting the Dancer, who wasn't interested in him in the first place.
* ArrangedMarriage: Yvonne has one with the Baron de Landsfield, but would rather marry Pierre.
* DamselInDistress: Yvonne becomes this when she is kidnapped by Rouge Noir of the Purple Terror.
* DreamBallet: Once Don's character strikes it rich in the "Broadway Melody" sequence, he bumps into a dancer from a speakeasy a second time. In his imaginings, the dancer turns into a long-haired [[TheIngenue ingenue]] who flies into his arms; a far cry from the reality, which is a floozy.
* DreamSequence: The bulk of the movie comprises an extended dream sequence by Don's character, a stagehand who gets [[TapOnTheHead pasted by a falling sandbag]] and dreams himself in 17th century France.
* ForgottenFramingDevice: ''The Dancing Cavalier'' begins with a modern guy getting bumped on the head and dreaming he's in 17th century France, and ends with him still in 17th century France.
* LoveTheme: "Would You?" for Pierre and Yvonne.
* OffWithHisHead: Predictably for the time period, Yvonne warns Pierre that word of their meetings in the court could result in him getting sentenced to the guillotine, but he still risks it.
