Trading Places Trading Places Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. It tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis also star. The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th-century novel "The Prince and the Pauper". The film was written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod and was produced by Aaron Russo. It was released to
Places in Virginia with names involving "Dale" Places in Virginia with names involving "Dale" The term or name Dale appears in a number of place names in the American state of Virginia. Unless stated otherwise, a listed place is a town, or unincorporated community. The territory of the present state of West Virginia was without controversy part of Virginia at least until the secession of Virginia in 1861. The following West Virginia places took their current names from those of settlements existing before secession, and may then have already been regarded as named places in Virginia: In contrast, Glen Dale is a city that takes its name