Barbara O'Neil (Barbra Stanwyck) is a taxi dancer with little time for most men she meets until she bails out near do well Eddie Miller (Monroe Owsley). She also manages to get him employment with the kind, respectful customer (Ricardo Cortez) who who also has designs on her, though with the noblest of intentions. She marries Eddie who turns out to be a first rate weasal as he cheats on Barbra and embezzles from Bradley.
One of Stanwyck's finer early performances as she endures degrading by Miller, principle with with Bradley. Hard as nails on the job or romantically naïve with the craven Miller, she carries both off convincingly like she had and would throughout the 30s in similar roles.
Monroe Owsley is a superb snake in more than one scene, an effective vile coward in others. Cortez is both charming and convincingly composed, his scenes with Stanwyck graceful in direct contrast to the rambunctious dance hall. Blanche Fedirici as the dancers supervisor Mrs. Blanchard is a wonderful foil andpitch perfect while Sally Blane as Molly in a fascinating low key sub plot slowly deteriorates from wide eye kid to cynical burned out dancer over the films short period.
Under the steady direction of Lionel Barrymore who stages and gets fine performances from his cast delivering Jo Swerlings very civil script Ten Cents a Dance is a bargain of a film.
One of Stanwyck's finer early performances as she endures degrading by Miller, principle with with Bradley. Hard as nails on the job or romantically naïve with the craven Miller, she carries both off convincingly like she had and would throughout the 30s in similar roles.
Monroe Owsley is a superb snake in more than one scene, an effective vile coward in others. Cortez is both charming and convincingly composed, his scenes with Stanwyck graceful in direct contrast to the rambunctious dance hall. Blanche Fedirici as the dancers supervisor Mrs. Blanchard is a wonderful foil andpitch perfect while Sally Blane as Molly in a fascinating low key sub plot slowly deteriorates from wide eye kid to cynical burned out dancer over the films short period.
Under the steady direction of Lionel Barrymore who stages and gets fine performances from his cast delivering Jo Swerlings very civil script Ten Cents a Dance is a bargain of a film.