Dancers in the Dark

Dancers in the Dark
Directed by	David Burton
Written by	Herman J. Mankiewicz adaptation Brian Marlow Howard Emmett Rogers
Based on	play Jazz King by James Ashmore Creelman
Starring	Miriam Hopkins Jack Oakie George Raft
Music by	Dana Suesse
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 11, 1932 (1932-03-11)
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Dancers in the Dark is a 1932 American pre-Code film about a taxi dancer (Miriam Hopkins), a big band leader (Jack Oakie), and a gangster (George Raft).

George Raft, billed sixth, was listed much lower in the cast than the size of his role indicated because he was at the dawn of his career. His part was as large as any of the other players except for Hopkins and arguably Oakie. The same thing had happened to Raft previously in his earlier film Quick Millions, a gangster vehicle starring Spencer Tracy, in which Raft's role was extremely large and colorful, even featuring some dancing.^[1]