Dance, Girl, Dance 1940

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The themes are female friendship and a woman's fulfillment, and it is one of Arzner's most coherent and accomplished films. Read more

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Dance, Girl, Dance is just a cliche-ridden, garbled repetition of the story of the aches and pains in a dancer's rise to fame and fortune. Read more

Paul Taylor, Time Out: Arzner's internal critique of Hollywood ideology (woman as silent object of male scrutiny). It works within the confines of a stock vaudevillian golddiggers comedy-drama. Read more