On Your Toes

(1939)

94 minutes

Comedy / Musical

Directed by Ray Enright

Cast:

Vera Zorina as Vera Barnova 
Eddie Albert as Phil Dolan Jr. 
Alan Hale Sr. as Sergei Alexandrovitch 
Frank McHugh as Paddy Reilly 
James Gleason as Phil Dolan Sr. 
Leonid Kinskey as Ivan Boultonoff 
Gloria Dickson as Peggy Porterfield 
Queenie Smith as Mrs. Lil Dolan 
Erik Rhodes as Konstantin Morrisine 
Berton Churchill as Donald Henderson 
Donald O'Connor as Phil Jr. as a Boy 
Sarita Wooton as Vera as a Girl  

Junior Donal is a former performer who becomes a music teacher at Knickerbocker University in New York. He hires Peggy Portefield to convince Sergei Alexandrovich, the director of the Russian Ballet, to show a friend's jazzy "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet. Junior is in a relationship with Frankie Frayne, but becomes attracted to the company's main ballerina, Vera Barnova, where he becomes the male lead in "Slaughter". Vera’s flame is angered by this and enlists two criminals to murder Junior during his performance. 

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