A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.
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Donald Cook
- Jack
- (as Donn Cook)
Kitty Alexander
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Grainger Jr.
- Marty - the Chauffeur
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDonald Cook's debut.
- GoofsAlthough Ruth Etting's character is called Helen Leslie throughout the film, on her Roseland employee card that Jack finds, the handwritten name appears to be Helen Lester.
- Quotes
Marty, the Chauffeur: You know, she goes for me in a big way, Pete. If the boss wasn't chasin' every skirt in the blue book, I'd have some chance to see her.
- ConnectionsReferences Noah's Ark (1928)
Featured review
No Ten Cents A Dance?
I'm guessing that Jack Warner did not want to lay out the bucks to pay for the song Ten Cents A Dance for Ruth Etting to leave for posterity. The same year as this short subject came out, Etting made that Rodgers&Hart song a classic on Broadway in Simple Simon. It seems bizarre to me that the song she made such a hit about a dime a dance girl would not be in a short subject where she plays one. A year later Barbara Stanwyck for Columbia starred in a film entitled Ten Cents A Dance.
Had she done her hit record in this film I might have rated it a notch higher. As it is the chance to hear and see Ruth Etting should not be missed. Her numbers Dancing With Tears In My Eyes and Let Me Sing And I'm Happy. The latter Jack Warner did own it being introduced by Al Jolson in Mammy which was a Warner Brothers film.
Roseland has a basic triangle plot involving Ruth a dance hall girl at Roseland, her boyfriend Jimmy Granger who works as a chauffeur and Donald Cook the guy Granger chauffeurs.
Other than Etting's singing, nothing terribly special about Roseland.
Had she done her hit record in this film I might have rated it a notch higher. As it is the chance to hear and see Ruth Etting should not be missed. Her numbers Dancing With Tears In My Eyes and Let Me Sing And I'm Happy. The latter Jack Warner did own it being introduced by Al Jolson in Mammy which was a Warner Brothers film.
Roseland has a basic triangle plot involving Ruth a dance hall girl at Roseland, her boyfriend Jimmy Granger who works as a chauffeur and Donald Cook the guy Granger chauffeurs.
Other than Etting's singing, nothing terribly special about Roseland.
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- bkoganbing
- Feb 8, 2014
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- Runtime12 minutes
- Color
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