As plain as its title, this cheap comedy-drama from Golden Arrow Productions was yet another in a series of Poverty Row productions that wasted the not inconsiderable talents of former Dracula star Helen Chandler. She played Nora Marsh, a taxi dancer engaged to hotheaded Irish cab driver, Jerry Raymond (Jason Robards). In a jealous rage over Nora's friendship with playboy Patrick Gibbs Jr. (Edward J. Nugent), Jerry crashes his cab and is fired. When a disgusted Nora agrees to marry Patrick, Jerry goes to work for a beer-runner and eventually ends up in prison. Nora and Patrick, meanwhile, have a child (Ronnie Cosbey), and live the life of the rich and famous alongside Patrick's sister, Clare (Natalie Moorhead), and her husband, a European prince. A reformed Jerry returns to his old profession as a cab driver and becomes the target of the bored and love-starved Clare. But when Patrick is found dead in the garage from carbon poisoning, Clare blames Jerry and Nora. About to be arrested, Jerry is rescued in the nick of time by the family doctor, who pronounces Patrick's death a suicide caused by alcoholism.
Dance Hall Hostess (1933)
Directed by Betty Burbridge / B. Reeves Eason
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