dance, fools, dance

March 24 movie: Dance, Fools, Dance. Joan Crawford plays a socialite whose father loses everything in the stock market crash and then (in)conveniently dies. Crawford cheerfully takes a job as a reporter and plays happy homemaker for her indolent brother, who ends up selling bathtub gin for a gangster (Clark Gable) who forces him to commit murder. I thought from the title this was going to be a fun, sleazy romp like Our Dancing Daughters but it was actually sordid and depressing. No one even says the title during the film!