---
title: 'We Were Dancing (1942)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Robert Z. Leonard'
released: '1942-04-30'
runtime_minutes: 95
genres:
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/we-were-dancing-1942'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035537/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# We Were Dancing (1942)

1942 · 95 min · Romance · United States


## Synopsis

We Were Dancing is a 1942 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, written by Claudine West, Hans Rameau and George Froeschel, and starring Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas. It is based loosely on Noël Coward's 1935 play of the same name, together with ideas from Ways and Means, another play in Coward's Tonight at 8.30 play cycle, and Coward's Private Lives.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Robert Z. Leonard](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-z-leonard)
- **Producer:** [Robert Z. Leonard](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-z-leonard)
- **Screenplay:** [George Froeschel](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-froeschel)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bronisław Kaper](https://cinepixo.com/people/bronis-aw-kaper)
- **Director of Photography:** [Robert H. Planck](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-h-planck)
- **Editor:** [George Boemler](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-boemler)

## Cast

- [Alan Mowbray](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-mowbray)
- [Reginald Owen](https://cinepixo.com/people/reginald-owen)
- [Florence Bates](https://cinepixo.com/people/florence-bates)
- [Gino Corrado](https://cinepixo.com/people/gino-corrado)
- [Nella Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/nella-walker)
- [Heather Thatcher](https://cinepixo.com/people/heather-thatcher)
- [Duncan Renaldo](https://cinepixo.com/people/duncan-renaldo)
- [Gail Patrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/gail-patrick)
- [Mary Forbes](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-forbes)
- [Norma Shearer](https://cinepixo.com/people/norma-shearer)
- [Norma Varden](https://cinepixo.com/people/norma-varden)
- [Douglas Wood](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-wood-2)
- [Lee Bowman](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-bowman)
- [Marjorie Main](https://cinepixo.com/people/marjorie-main)
- [Russell Hicks](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-hicks)

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