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  • Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
  • PG
    111 min | Documentary
Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
PG
111 min | Documentary

A nostalgic look back at the Great Depression with contemporary archival footage and film clips picturing James Cagney as an American Everyman.
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Director
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Philippe Mora (written by)
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Updated Mar 23, 1975

Release date
Aug 6, 1975 (United States)

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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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Cab Calloway
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Eddie Cantor
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Hobart Cavanaugh
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George Chandler
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Charles 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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Marlene Dietrich
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John Dillinger
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John Wilson 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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Greta Garbo
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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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Oliver Hardy
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Jean Harlow
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Billie Holiday
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Herbert 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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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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Fredric March
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Chico Marx
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Grant Mitchell
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Richard Nixon
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Harlow Wilcox
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