Dancing on a Dime (1940)

Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the shows dress rehearsal Destitute the troupe plans to return home when Mac the stage doorman offers to allow four of the men Phil Dandy Jack and Ted to use the theater for a boardinghouse After accepting Macs offer the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland who is eager to audition for them When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance they allow her to audition hoping she will back the show