The Dancing Masters

The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited cameo role as a fraudulent insurance salesman.

Cast

Stan Laurel

as Stan

Oliver Hardy

as Ollie

Trudy Marshall

as Trudy Harlan

Robert Bailey

as Grant Lawrence

Matt Briggs

as Wentworth Harlan

Margaret Dumont

as Louise Harlan

Allan Lane

as George Worthing

Brooks Benedict

as Sidewalk Barker (uncredited)

George Lloyd

as Jasper (uncredited)

Robert Mitchum

as Mickey Halligan (uncredited)

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