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   Synopsis: A Day at the Races is the Marx Brothers at their commercial and popular peak. The story finds Groucho, Chico, and Harpo helping out at a sanatorium, where their longtime foil in the movies, Margaret Dumont, is the leading patient. Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems however. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.

   * This film features the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in one of the best movie Lindy Hop scenes ever filmed (and in a barn), (1941 Hellzapoppin' being the best.) Bess Flowers and Dorothy Dandridge are in this film but do not dance.

Vivian Faye does a blue colored "Water Carnival" ballet scene. The Whitey's Lindy Hoppers have a great full length scene in which they dance the Lindy Hop. Herbert 'Whitey' White is also seen in the center background of the dancers. If your a Marx brothers fan or if you are a swing dancer you will like the film, this is a MUST HAVE Swing Dance video.

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