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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is a 1975 documentary film directed by Philippe Mora, [4] consisting largely of newsreel footage and contemporary film clips [5] to portray the era of the Great Depression. [6] [7]
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. Written by lyricist Yip Harburg and composer Jay Gorney , it was part of the 1932 musical revue Americana ; the melody is based on a Russian-Jewish lullaby.
On the album cover, the song was renamed The Golddiggers' Song: We're In The Money. [5] For the photos on the album's cover, Connie Francis and an unnamed production assistant of MGM Records [6] dressed up in fashionable 1930s style and reenacted the famous photo of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow posing with guns in front of a Ford Model B of 1932.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Philippe Mora: Newsreel footage of various personages of the 1930s: Documentary: Carry On Behind: Gerald Thomas: Kenneth Williams, Elke Sommer: Comedy: Conduct Unbecoming: Michael Anderson: Michael York, Richard Attenborough: Drama: Confessions of a Pop Performer: Norman Cohen: Robin Askwith, Antony Booth: Sex ...
In 1975 and newly married, Mora wrote and directed, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, [1] [27] [28] a documentary about the 1930s Depression consisting of a series of film clips from newsreels and photographs, Hollywood films reflecting historical events, and those about making movies as well as outtakes, trailers, and home movies.
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The pair's most famous song was "Brother Can You Spare a Dime," based on a lullaby that Gorney learned as a child in Russia. It first appeared in the 1932 Shubert production of New Americana and became the anthem of the Great Depression.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime (1975) – David Puttnam was involved in this 109 minute compilation of 1930s film footage. As well as singing the title song we hear Bing's recording of " Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day) ."