Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dancing Lady is a 1933 musical motion picture starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. In the film, Crawford plays Janie Barlow, a young New York burlesque dancer rescued from jail by a rich man. Janie later decides to better her life by moving uptown and gets her first big opportunity by being placed in a Broadway play. Dancing Lady is the fourth of eight cinematic collaborations between Crawford and Gable. The picture features the screen debut of dancer Fred Astaire, as well as the first credited film appearance of Nelson Eddy and an early feature film appearance of the Three Stooges in support of their then-partner Ted Healy, who had a larger role in the movie; the quartet was billed as "Ted Healey and His Stooges." At the other end of the comedy scale, cultured Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley plays a supporting role. Dancing Lady was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by John W. Considine Jr. and David O. Selznick, and based upon the novel of the same name by James Warner Bellah, published the previous year