Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
There are lots of people out there who find it an enjoyable quest to watch every pre-Code movie they can get their hands on. If you belong to that crowd, you can search for the easily accessible Ten Cents a Dance, starring a very young Barbara Stanwyck and directed by Lionel Barrymore. If you’re not in that crowd, you might just be drawn in by those two names and then get severely disappointed. This movie isn’t that good, and it’s painfully dated.
As you can guess by the song, whose title inspired the movie, Barbara is a dance hall girl struggling for money. She has to put up with losers and men who pinch, all for the price of a dime. Of course, there’s a love triangle between a poor man and a rich man, but sometimes when movies were made in 1931, the dialogue is a little hard to relate to. The good news is Barbara Stanwyck made tons of pre-Code movies so you can pick a couple and check them out.
I haven't been able to find Ten Cents a Dance availalabe on DVD anywhere, so if you want to see it, click here to watch it on YouTube. And thanks "Silver Screen Classics" for posting!
More Barbara Stanwyck movies here!
As you can guess by the song, whose title inspired the movie, Barbara is a dance hall girl struggling for money. She has to put up with losers and men who pinch, all for the price of a dime. Of course, there’s a love triangle between a poor man and a rich man, but sometimes when movies were made in 1931, the dialogue is a little hard to relate to. The good news is Barbara Stanwyck made tons of pre-Code movies so you can pick a couple and check them out.
I haven't been able to find Ten Cents a Dance availalabe on DVD anywhere, so if you want to see it, click here to watch it on YouTube. And thanks "Silver Screen Classics" for posting!
More Barbara Stanwyck movies here!