Good Dame
Cast & Crew
Marion Gering
Sylvia Sidney
Fredric March
Jack La Rue
Noel Francis
Russell Hopton
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Mace Townsley works the card table at Honest John Slocum's carnival show. When it looks as though a customer might win, his sidekick, "Spats" Edwards, causes a diversion while Mace exits. One day Spats steals Lillie Taylor's purse to cause a diversion. The purse contains her last sixty-two dollars and a train ticket to Chicago. Now destitute, Lillie complains to the manager of the carnival, who, as she had been working as a chorine, arranges for her to work as a dancer in Bluch Brown's "dame" show. Mace meets Lillie and flirts with her, cornering her in the animal car of the train. They are accidentally locked in, but when Mace finds out that Lillie is an innocent, he desists from bothering her. When the carnival is raided by police, Lillie is arrested for lewd performing with the rest of the female dancers. Mace tells Spats to steal her bail money from Brown. Mace bails her out, but she is ordered to leave town on the next train or be put in jail. Brown, having beaten Spats for the robbery, throws Lillie off the train, and Mace escapes from Brown before he has a chance to beat him. On the advice of one of her fellow dancers, Lillie checks into the Owl Hotel, and is unaware that Mace has checked into the room next to hers. During their next meeting, Mace finds out that the money Spats stole was hers. Lillie is disappointed to discover that Mace is not in love with her, because she has fallen in love with him, but he tells her that every "dame" he is with knows to expect a lie. Mace decides to return all of Lillie's money and figures out a furniture polish racket. Lillie, however, insists he earn the money honestly, so they get entry into private apartment buildings and sell the polish door-to-door. One day, Lillie gets a note from her aunt in Chicago advising her not to come to live with her, while Mace receives an invitation to join another carnival and to bring his own "cane girl." Lillie pretends her letter is from a boyfriend. When they are caught selling in one apartment building, Mace hits the apartment manager and Lillie hides him until the police arrive, after which he helps her escape and gives himself up. At night court, Lillie pleads in Mace's defense, and vowing their love for one another, they beg the judge to marry them. Impressed with the couple's ardor, the judge suspends the sentence, marries them, and helps them take the next train to Springfield to join Cook's carnival.
Director
Marion Gering
Cast
Sylvia Sidney
Fredric March
Jack La Rue
Noel Francis
Russell Hopton
Bradley Page
Kathleen Burke
Guy Usher
Joseph J. Franz
Miami Alvarez
William Farnum
Walter Brennan
John Marston
James Crane
Patricia Farley
Jill Dennett
Erin La Bissioniere
Ernest S. Adams
Dewey Robinson
Garry Owen
Helene Chadwick
Cecil Weston
Jack Baxley
Edward Gargan
Kenneth Macdonald
Wade Boteler
James Burke
Jimmy Dundee
Bud Fine
Ruth Hiatt
Kit Guard
Charles West
Jerome Storm
Frank O'connor
Crew
Emanuel Cohen
Hans Dreier
Jack Goodrich
Sam Hellman
W. B. Ihnen
Vincent Lawrence
William R. Lipman
William R. Lipman
Jane Loring
Frank Partos
B. P. Schulberg
Leon Shamroy
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
Portions of the film were unavailable for viewing, from the point when Lillie helps with Mace's furniture polish sales until Mace receives the offer to join another carnival. Plot information for the missing section was derived from copyright information.
