Syncopation
1929 · 83 min · ★ 6.5 · Music, Comedy, Drama
Benny and Flo are a husband-and-wife dance team starring in a new Broadway revue. When the show quickly flops, the two are forced to look for other employment and eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous in the process. But their relationship is tested when Flo attracts the attentions of a sophisticated millionaire playboy...
Directed by Bert Glennon
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- F Fred Waring Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians
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Barbara Bennett Fleurette Sloane -
Bobby Watson Benny Darrell -
Morton Downey Lew -
Dorothy Lee Peggy -
Verree Teasdale Rita Eliot -
Ian Hunter Alexander Winston -
Osgood Perkins Hummel -
Mackenzie Ward Sylvester Cunningham - L Leon Barte Artino
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