We Were Dancing (film)

We Were Dancing
Directed byRobert Z. Leonard
Screenplay byClaudine West
Hans Rameau
George Froeschel
Based onWe Were Dancing
1935 play
by Noël Coward
Produced byRobert Z. Leonard
Orville O. Dull
StarringNorma Shearer
Melvyn Douglas
CinematographyRobert Planck
Edited byGeorge Boemler
Music byNoël Coward
Bronislau Kaper
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • April 30, 1942 (1942-04-30)
(New York)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,085,000[1]
Box office$1,079,000[1]

We Were Dancing is a 1942 MGM romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, written by Claudine West, Hans Rameau and George Froeschel, and starring Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas.[2][3] It is based loosely on Noël Coward's 1935 play of the same name, together with ideas from Ways and Means, another play in Coward's Tonight at 8.30 play cycle, and Coward's Private Lives.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Day, Barry. "We Were Dancing (1942)", Coward on Film: The Cinema of Noël Coward, Scarecrow Press (2005), pp. 36–37 ISBN 0810853582
  3. ^ Landazuri, Margarita. We Were Dancing, TCM.com, accessed 16 September 2014