Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Laverne Andrews
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Maxene Andrews
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Patty Andrews
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Fred Astaire
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Warner Baxter
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Wallace Beery
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Brooks Benedict
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Constance Bennett
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Jack Benny
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Busby Berkeley
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Irving Berlin
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Willie Best
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Herman Bing
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Joan Blondell
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Humphrey Bogart
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Fanny Brice
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Joe E. Brown
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James Burke
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James Cagney
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Eddie Cantor
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Hobart Cavanaugh
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George Chandler
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Charlie Chaplin
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Spencer Charters
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Winston Churchill
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Mae Clarke
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Betty Compson
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Gary Cooper
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Jackie Cooper
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Joan Crawford
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Bing Crosby
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Frankie Darro
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William B. Davidson
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Cecil B. DeMille
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John Dillinger
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Walt Disney
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Marie Dressler
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Tom Dugan
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Margaret Dumont
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James Dunn
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Irene Dunne
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Jimmy Durante
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Nelson Eddy
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Cliff Edwards
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Bill Elliott
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Madge Evans
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Alice Faye
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Stepin Fetchit
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W.C. Fields
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Errol Flynn
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Dick Foran
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Gerald Ford
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Preston Foster
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Kay Francis
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Clark Gable
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Judy Garland
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Janet Gaynor
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George Gershwin
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Benny Goodman
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Cary Grant
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Woody Guthrie
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Oliver Hardy
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Jean Harlow
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George 'Gabby' Hayes
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Katharine Hepburn
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Billie Holiday
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Herbert Hoover
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J. Edgar Hoover
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Bob Hope
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William Hopper
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Walter Huston
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Al Jolson
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Boris Karloff
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Ruby Keeler
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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John F. Kennedy
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Fiorello LaGuardia
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Hedy Lamarr
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Stan Laurel
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Gypsy Rose Lee
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Vivien Leigh
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Carole Lombard
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Joe Louis
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Myrna Loy
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Bela Lugosi
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Douglas MacArthur
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Jeanette MacDonald
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Fredric March
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Chico Marx
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Groucho Marx
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Harpo Marx
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Ethel Merman
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Grant Mitchell
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Paul Muni
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Harold Nicholas
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Fayard Nicholas
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Pat Nixon
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Richard Nixon
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Jesse Owens
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Dick Powell
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Eleanor Powell
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William Powell
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Tyrone Power
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George Raft
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Paul Robeson
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Dewey Robinson
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Edward G. Robinson
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Ginger Rogers
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Will Rogers
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Mickey Rooney
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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James Roosevelt
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Cliff Saum
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Max Schmeling
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Kate Smith
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Barbara Stanwyck
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James Stewart
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Shirley Temple
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Spencer Tracy
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Harry S. Truman
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Rudy Vallee
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Ethel Waters
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John Wayne
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Johnny Weissmüller
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Orson Welles
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Mae West
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Harlow Wilcox
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Walter Winchell
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Fay Wray
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Loretta Young
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Tammany Young
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