Paid to Dance (1937)
- Starring:
- Don Terry, Jacqueline Wells, (more)
- Director(s):
- Charles C. Coleman, Jr.
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Synopsis of Paid to Dance
Marked Woman was the most famous of the late-1930s films based on New York DA Thomas Dewey's attack on vice lord Lucky Luciano; Paid to Dance was among the least famous. All-purpose Columbia leading lady Jacqueline Wells plays Joan Bradley, a long-suffering hoofer in the seedy dime-a-dance joint controlled by racketeer Jack Miranda (Arthur Loft). Like her fellow "hostesses," Joan is expected to clip the customers for their bankrolls -- and, it is implied, offer their bodies as well as their terpsichorean skills (though we're assured that Joan is still pure of heart and every other portion of her anatomy). Crusading detective William Dennis (Don Terry) vows to save Joan and her ilk from Miranda's clutches, but it takes plenty of brains and muscle to topple the villain's criminal empire. Billed last, Ralph "Dick Tracy" Byrd has a marvelous moment when he takes on two hoodlums at once -- and wins! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Paid to Dance
- Don Terry - William Dennis
- Rita Hayworth - Betty Morgan
- Paul Stanton - Charles Kennedy
- Louise Stanley - Phyllis Parker
- Beatrice Blinn - Lois
- Nell Craig - Woman
- John Gallaudet - Barney Wilson
- Bill Irving - Salesman
- Edward Peil Sr. - Conductor
- Stanley Mack - Dance Hall Customer
- George Lloyd - Sanders
- Ethan Laidlaw - Dance Hall Customer
- Al Herman - Joe Krause
- George Lollier - Sailor
- Ruth Hilliard - Ruth Gregory
- Bruce Mitchell - Cop
- Ernest Wood - Francine
- Harry Strang - Attendant
- Edward Hearn - Butler
- Bess Flowers - Suzy
- Ann Doran - Rose Trevor
- Eddie Fetherstone - Skipper
- Jacqueline Wells - Joan Bradley
- Arthur Loft - Jack Miranda
- Paul Fix - Nifty
- Ralph Byrd - Nickels Brown
- Jack Cheatham - Radio Cop
- Beatrice Curtis - Frances Mitchell
- Thurston Hall - Governor
- Lee Prather - McDonald
- Bud McTaggart - Newsboy
- Horace McMahon - LaRue
- Edward J. Le Saint - Magistrate
- Bud Jamison - Lieutenant of Police
- Walter Lawrence - News Vendor
- Bill Lally - Policeman
- Georgia Cooper - Mrs. Daniels
- Jane Hamilton - Evelyn
- Dan Wolheim - Policeman
- Dick Rush
- Arthur Stuart Hull - Dance Hall Customer
- Dick Curtis - Mike Givens
- Jay Eaton - Dance Hall Customer
- Director(s):
- Charles C. Coleman, Jr.
- Writer(s):
- Robert Kent, Robert Kent
- Producer(s):
- Ralph Cohn
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