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Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
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7 February 1931 (USA)
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After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie goes to work as a cub reporter. Her...
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okay early Crawford/Gable gangsta flick
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(Complete credited cast)| Joan Crawford | ... | Bonnie Jordan | |
| Lester Vail | ... | Robert 'Bob' Townsend | |
| Cliff Edwards | ... | Bert Scranton | |
| William Bakewell | ... | Rodney Jordan | |
| William Holden | ... | Stanley Jordan | |
| Clark Gable | ... | Jake Luva | |
| Earle Foxe | ... | Wally Baxter (as Earl Foxe) | |
| Purnell Pratt | ... | Mr. Parker - Editor (as Purnell B. Pratt) | |
| Hale Hamilton | ... | Mr. Selby | |
| Natalie Moorhead | ... | Della | |
| Joan Marsh | ... | Sylvia | |
| Russell Hopton | ... | Whitey - Luva's Henchman |
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80 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
USA:TV-G (TV rating) |
Finland:(Banned) (original rating) |
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Before this movie Joan Crawford told people not to have affairs with their leading men until they made three movies together. She and Clark Gable had only made two together, but they started to have an affair during this movie. Afterwards Crawford said she had to eat her words, but that they tasted sweet.
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Featured in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) (TV)
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Free and Easy
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Lots of familiar faces in this one - Joan Crawford stars as Bonnie Jordan, with Clark Gable as the gangster Jake Luva. Cliff Edwards is Bert, and a 20 year old Ann Dvorak is still playing chorus-girl parts at this point. Bonnie's brother "Rodney" is played by William Bakewell, much less-well known, but had made 166 films and TV shows, starting in the silents. Even Sam McDaniel, Hattie's brother, plays the butler in this one. You can tell it's pre-code, since they are buying illegal liquor, and having naughty conversations here and there. Dad goes broke in the stock market crash, and the mooching "kids", now adults, must go to work. Their choices of professions give them separate dilemmas, and they both have decisions to make. Joanie does a dance number in Jake's club in this one, to be able to cozy up to him, shocking all her old high-society "friends". Plain and simple story, no real surprises, but a likely-enough gangster plot, I guess. Everyone was heavy on the makeup, and Joan Crawford does her big, obvious facial expressions which had been so necessary in her earlier silent films, but now seem overdone. I didn't see her slap anyone in this film, but I guess she hadn't started that trend yet in 1931. Entertaining film. Crawford and Gable had come a long way since they were both extras in "Merry Widow" 1925.