A cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage.A cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage.A cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage.
Earl Burtnett
- Orchestra Leader
- (as Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Orchestra and Trio)
Eddie Bush
- Member of Biltmore Trio - Guitar
- (uncredited)
Louise Carver
- Masseuse
- (uncredited)
Henry Roquemore
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe film holds the record for longest UK film ban. The BBFC banned the film in 1930. It was finally released, with a PG rating, in 2003.
- Quotes
Diana Hoster: [answering phone from a massage table, butt-naked--literally; this is pre-code] Di Hoster speaking, in the flesh.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood Uncensored (1987)
- SoundtracksOh! How I Adore You
Words and Music by Harry Stoddard and Marcy Klauber
Copyright 1930 by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co
Featured review
Acting Lessons
If you want to study good acting, this film is essential for, well, the flip side of the acting craft. The most basic line readings are spectacularly awful. My personal favorite: a woman, facing two policemen with overbearing warnings, saying, "so - long pause - what?" To be fair, though, the script, just the basic dialogue, is horrible and the plot is just the bare bones material for an audience to get a peek at a lurid world of 'party girls' and Prohibition-era 'gin parties.' The double-meanings are just a step more lurid than the thinly-veiled plots of other "A" pictures. While prostitution is the main theme, the look into how the rich flaunt the alcohol ban is sure to have titillated an audience of the era. The 'perfume' bath given to one of the girls is strongly suggested to be gin. And one cop notes before questioning a girl that the guilty go for a bottle before being interrogated. The class depictions in a film shot at the onset of the Depression also are stark. The rich drink and carouse with poor girls on the margins of society who, as the opening title says, want only to earn a living in a "decent" way. The message to women is clear enough: the workplace is no place for decent gals.
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- Dangerous Business
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- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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