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Ten Cents A Dance (1931) a Hollywood Precode feature starring Barbara Stanwyck

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Ten Cents A Dance (1931) Hollywood Precode feature starring Barbara Stanwyck

IMDb: tt0022469
Director: Lionel Barrymore

Run time: 1 hr 15 mins


This is another Hollywood Precode feature. The precode features were released before the Hays code for films went into effect. They are important because they show a much more realistic portrayal of life, and in many cases the
the social difficulties women faced in that period specifically.

Ten Cents A Dance is, according to the opening sequence credits, taken from an idea based on the Rogers and Hart song Ten Cents A Dance. Barbara Stanwyck who is young and attractive in this plays a taxi dancer trying to get out of the dance hall life.

My notes

The question for me is: if the precode features with their mature themes were allowed to progress in the age of the talking movie until now, how would our world have changed? The Hays code put in place for our mass media of that period an artificial idea of human relationships in ways too numerous to explore. It also effected television production. In sum the dramatic entertainment after code stultified culture and American culture in particular.

Notes written February 21, 2014

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