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The Taxi Dancer is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Harry F. Millarde and starring Owen Moore and, in her first film with top billing, Joan Crawford . Plot. Joselyn Poe is a southern girl who tries her luck as dancer in New York City. When she is unable to find work, she works as taxi dancer and meets several suitors. [1] [2] [3] Cast
A taxi dancer is a paid dance partner in a ballroom dance. Taxi dancers work (sometimes for money but not always) on a dance-by-dance basis. When taxi dancing first appeared in taxi-dance halls during the early 20th century in the United States, male patrons typically bought dance tickets for a small sum each.
Synopsis. "Joslyn, unable to get a job as a stage dancer, goes to work in a dancing academy and is befriended by Lee, a gambler. She becomes infatuated with Kelvin, a professional dancer, who is a cad, and when he kills a rounder, she hides him. To save him she agrees to sacrifice herself to Brierhalter, a millionaire, but Kelvin is killed ...
- Harry Millarde
- Joan Crawford
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The Taxi Dancer: Directed by Harry F. Millarde. With Joan Crawford, Owen Moore, Marc McDermott, Gertrude Astor. Card shark Lee Rogers overhears Joselyn Poe crying in her furnished room. She is trying to get a dancing job in New York without any luck.
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- Comedy
- Harry F. Millarde
- 1927-02-05
A taxi dance hall is a type of dance hall where dancers, usually young women, called taxi dancers are paid to dance with usually male patrons. The owners of a taxi dance hall provide music and a dance floor for their patrons and taxi dancers. [1]
Feb 27, 2021 · A taxi dancer is a dancer who gets paid to dance with a dance partner. The taxi dancer gets paid proportionally to the time she dances with her male partner, a concept similar to a cab...
Jan 9, 2016 · The sad world of "taxi dancers" was explored by Maxwell Bodenheim in the June 12, 1926 edition of The New Yorker. Bodenheim visited a "cheap Broadway dance hall" populated by taxi-dancers and their patrons.
