TEN CENTS A DANCE (1931) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Lionel Barrymore
Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley,
Sally Blane, Blanche Friderici, Martha Sleeper
Barbara Stanwyck plays a taxi dancer who catches the eye of a wealthy businessman but she falls for a cad and quits her job and they get married and the cad goes to work in the businessman's office but he goes into debt gambling and playing the stock market and embezzles a bunch of money from the office safe and he'll go to jail unless he can get his hands on $5,000 so the once and future taxi dancer goes to the businessman who's still crazy about her to get the money to bail out the cad and she gets it which makes the cad all pissed off and by now she's tired of him acting like an asshole so she dumps him and goes back to the dancehall where the businessman tracks her down and they make up and there they are kissing in closeup which the dancehall matron says is against the rules but they don't care because they're going to be married fade out the end. Barbara Stanwyck. What a dame.
