Ten Cents a Dance

Ten Cents a Dance
  • Release date: 6 Mar 1931
  • Release year: 1931
  • Runtime: 75 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: money in title, dance hall hostess, ungrateful husband, lousy husband, false accusation of infidelity, divorce, song in title, singer, prohibition era, 1930s
Plot:
Taxi dancer Barbara O'Neill (Barbara Stanwyck) at the emporium "Palais de Dance" marries young office clerk Eddie Miller (Monroe Owsley): a failure, a louse, and a thief who steals money from his boss to pay off the heavy gambling debts he has incurred. Barbara borrows $5,000 from wealthy admirer Bradley Carlton (Ricardo Cortez), and she repays Eddie's debts only for her ingrate husband to accuse her of having compromised herself. She realizes just what a loser she has married, so she divorces him and agrees to become the wife of generous Mr. Carlton although she's not in love with him.
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