Dance, Fools, Dance

Based loosely on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the Jake Lingle murder case in Chicago, this fast-moving vehicle features Crawford, who came out of silent movies unscathed, and a very young Gable who was new to the MGM lot and just feeling his way around when he was sixth-billed here. Crawford and Bakewell have been spoiled terribly by their doting stockbroker father, Holden (no relation to the one you know about, whose name was William Beedle, Jr.), but when the stock market takes a nosedive, their lives are radically altered. Crawford has been having an affair with Vail and he'd like to make her an honest woman but she refuses, as honesty is not her best po...