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Director
  
Charles C. Coleman

Music director
  
Morris Stoloff

Language
  
English

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Costume design
  
Robert Kalloch

Duration
  

Country
  
United States


Cast
  
Rita Hayworth
(Betty Morgan),
Don Terry
(William Dennis),
Julie Bishop
(Joan Bradley)

Writer
  
Robert E. Kent
,
Leslie T. White

Release date
  
December 11, 1937

Similar movies
  
Under the Pampas Moon (1935), Hit the Saddle (1937), Meet Nero Wolfe (1936), The Game That Kills (1937), Girls Can Play (1937)

Paid to Dance (also known as Hard to Hold) is a 1937 drama film starring Don Terry, Jacqueline Wells and Rita Hayworth.

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Plot summary

Government agents William Dennis (Terry) and Joan Barclay (Wells) are undercover, working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" of the many dance halls operated by Jack Miranda (Arthur Loft) and his henchman Nifty (Paul Fix). Dennis sets himself up as a theatrical booking agent, and shows his power by the opening and closing of Miranda's Paradise Club at will.

Cast

  • Don Terry as William Dennis
  • Jacqueline Wells as Joan Bradley
  • Rita Hayworth as Betty Morgan
  • Arthur Loft as Jack Miranda
  • Paul Stanton as Charles Kennedy
  • Paul Fix as Nifty
  • Louise Stanley as Phyllis Parker
  • Ralph Byrd as Nickels Brown
  • Beatrice Curtis as Frances Mitchell
  • Bess Flowers as Suzy
  • Beatrice Blinn as Lois
  • Jane Hamilton as Evelyn
  • Dick Curtis as Mike Givens
  • Al Herman as Joe Krause
  • Thurston Hall as Governor
  • John Gallaudet as Barney Wilson
  • Horace MacMahon as LaRue
  • George Lloyd as Sanders
  • Ruth Hilliard as Ruth Gregory
  • Ann Doran as Rose Tervor

    • References

    Paid to Dance Wikipedia
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    Paid to Dance IMDb Paid to Dance themoviedb.org