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- Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and quits dancing, but before that, she meets with the handsome and very rich Bradley. Barbara eventually starts dancing again, since her marriage is plagued by financial tension, and Bradley begins visiting her again.
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Popular culture. Parodies. References. External links. Ten Cents a Dance. "Ten Cents a Dance" is a popular song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart. [1] . The song was published in 1930. Background. The song lyrics tell of a taxi dancer lamenting the hardships of her job.
Christine Fletcher’s Ten Cents a Dance, published by Bloomsbury Books in 2008, is a work of historical fiction set during World War II. The main character is Ruby, a fifteen-year-old girl who...
Ten Cents a Dance is a 1931 American pre-Code romance-drama film directed by Lionel Barrymore and starring Barbara Stanwyck as a married taxi dancer who falls in love with one of her customers. The film was inspired by the popular song of the same name, which is sung over the title sequence.
Ten Cents a Dance is a tale of a seedier side of life in the 1940s, illustrating the trouble that a young girl can get into even when her intentions are pure. Ruby Jacinski is a fifteen-year-old girl who has lived something of a sheltered life until recently.
Directed by Lionel Barrymore. Screenplay by Jo Swerling, Dorothy Howell. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez , Monroe Owsley, Sally Blane, Blanche Friderici. Synopsis. Barbara O’Neill (Stanwyck), dance club hostess, dances with any man who buys a ten cents ticket. Going home, she finds Eddie Miller (Owsley) waiting for her.
Taxi dancer Barbara O'Neill (Barbara Stanwyck), at the emporium "Palis de Dance", marries a young office clerk, Eddie Miller (Monroe Owsley), a failure, a louse and a thief who steals money from his boss to pay off the heavy gambling debts he has incurred.
Original label. Ruth Etting. With night falling on the Roaring 20s, Ruth Etting cut “Ten Cents a Dance” on March 4, 1930, and it was named to the National Recording Registry in 2011. This Rodgers-Hart collaboration buries the 20s flapper myth and unveils the new Depression-era woman.
