Paid to Dance
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
C. C. Coleman Jr.
Don Terry
Jacqueline Wells
Rita Hayworth
Arthur Loft
Paul Stanton
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Synopsis
Dance hall owner Jack Miranda is suspected of running a hostess racket at the Paradise Dance hall that is destroying the lives of the young women who work for him. Hoping to put an end to Miranda's activities, the governor gives state agent William Dennis orders to secretly monitor the racket by setting up a theatrical agency across the street from Miranda's dance hall and business office. Unknown to the governor and Bill, Miranda is receiving protection from political boss Charles Kennedy. Soon after getting a job at Miranda's dance hall, Bill's girl friend, Joan, who is working with him, succeeds in attracting Nifty, Miranda's henchman. When the Paradise is raided and the gangsters are arrested, Bill makes a deal with Miranda to reopen the club, which has been closed by the police. The Paradise reopens, but when Bill does not receive payment from Miranda, he closes it. Miranda takes revenge on Bill by sending thugs to destroy his office, but Nickels Brown, another state agent, fights them off. Bill's power impresses Miranda, who decides to take him in as a partner. Later, when Miranda overhears Joan's dictograph conversation, he believes that she is a threat to him and locks her in the cellar. Kennedy is forced to investigate, and when he discovers that Bill and Nickels are really officers, he decides to use Nifty to frame Miranda and Bill. After handcuffing Miranda and Bill together and putting the key in Miranda's pocket, Nifty forces Nickels to drive them over a cliff. Bill, however, manages to knock the driver unconscious and send the gangster's car following them over a cliff. Nifty, who has released Joan and taken her to Kennedy's, is killed, along with Kennedy, when Bill and the police arrive. The rest of the gang is captured and Bill and Joan embrace.
Director
C. C. Coleman Jr.
Cast
Don Terry
Jacqueline Wells
Rita Hayworth
Arthur Loft
Paul Stanton
Paul Fix
Louise Stanley
Ralph Byrd
Beatrice Curtis
Bess Flowers
Beatrice Blinn
Jane Hamilton
Dick Curtis
Al Herman
Thurston Hall
John Gallaudet
Horace Macmahon
George Lloyd
Ruth Hilliard
Ann Doran
Bud Jamison
Bill Irving
Eddie Fetherston
Edward Lesaint
Ernest Wood
Lee Prather
Bill Lally
Dan Wolheim
Dick Rush
Bruce Mitchell
George Lollier
Jack Cheatham
Bud Mctaggart
Edward Peil Sr.
Walter Lawrence
Harry Strang
Stanley Mack
Ethan Laidlaw
Arthur Stuart Hull
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Notes
A working title for this film was Women of the Night.
