A young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe.A young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe.A young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe.
Sarita Wooton
- Vera as a Girl
- (as Sarita Wooten)
Irving Bacon
- Second Stage Manager
- (uncredited)
Leon Belasco
- Mishka - Slave in Ballet
- (uncredited)
Symona Boniface
- Woman in Audience
- (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
- Second Policeman
- (uncredited)
Glen Cavender
- Extra as Stagehand
- (uncredited)
Lew Christensen
- Ballet Dancer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"On Your Toes" was adapted from a Broadway musical that opened at the Imperial Theater in New York on April 11, 1936 and ran for 315 performances. Ray Bolger starred in the original stage production. The musical was revived on Broadway in 1954 and 1983.
- GoofsGeorge Balanchine's name is misspelled as "Ballanchine" in the credits.
- Quotes
Sergei Alexandrovitch: I will not give the American audiences what they want, I will give them what they ought to like.
- Crazy creditsLorenz Hart, the lyricist for the original Broadway show, receives onscreen credit, but his lyrics are never sung at all in the film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in That's Dancing! (1985)
- SoundtracksOh, You Beautiful Doll
(1911) (uncredited)
Music by Nat Ayer
Second number performed by the Dancing Dolans, repeated during the vaudeville bits
Danced by Donald O'Connor, Queenie Smith and James Gleason
Featured review
ON YOUR TOES (1939)\ is MORE important than THE RED SHOES (1948)
ON YOUR TOES (1939) is MORE important than THE RED SHOES (1948) ON YOUR TOES (1939) starring Vera Zorina (1917 - 2003) and Eddie Albert (doing the Gene Kelly part in SLAUGHTER ON 10th AVENUE ballet) is the most important ballet movie ever made. More important than the excellent, more famous movie titled THE RED SHOES (1948) starring Moira Shearer.
Get it from RobertsVideos.Com in Canada.
It's more important, better than the very good, justifiably honored RED SHOES (1948) movie.
Nobody interested in ballet in the movies can ignore ON YOUR TOES (1939) or why it was "disappeared" in 1939, the most important year in Hollywood movie history! Zorina was a Berlin, Germany born ballet dancer (big problem in Hollywood in 1939), and was married to George Ballanchine until 1946 when he married Maria Tallchief.
She married Goddard Lieberson (head of Columbia Records), had two sons with him, stayed married until his death in 1977.
She went on to be the head of an important ballet company in Norway.
She died in 2003 at the age of 86 of "unknown causes." She was a brilliant stage actress who originated the stage role in the 1930's of I MARRIED AN ANGEL (Jeanette MacDonald was the star of the movie version).
Her guileless style of acting shows up brilliantly in ON YOUR TOES (1939).
See it, get it, pay for it (RobertsVideos.Com isn't cheap!).
Thank you!
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David Roger "Tex" Allen, retired SAG-AFTRA movie actor...too old to work, too young to die!
Get it from RobertsVideos.Com in Canada.
It's more important, better than the very good, justifiably honored RED SHOES (1948) movie.
Nobody interested in ballet in the movies can ignore ON YOUR TOES (1939) or why it was "disappeared" in 1939, the most important year in Hollywood movie history! Zorina was a Berlin, Germany born ballet dancer (big problem in Hollywood in 1939), and was married to George Ballanchine until 1946 when he married Maria Tallchief.
She married Goddard Lieberson (head of Columbia Records), had two sons with him, stayed married until his death in 1977.
She went on to be the head of an important ballet company in Norway.
She died in 2003 at the age of 86 of "unknown causes." She was a brilliant stage actress who originated the stage role in the 1930's of I MARRIED AN ANGEL (Jeanette MacDonald was the star of the movie version).
Her guileless style of acting shows up brilliantly in ON YOUR TOES (1939).
See it, get it, pay for it (RobertsVideos.Com isn't cheap!).
Thank you!
----------
David Roger "Tex" Allen, retired SAG-AFTRA movie actor...too old to work, too young to die!
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- Jul 22, 2014
Details
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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