Wonder Bar (1934)
Crime, Drama, Music, Romance • 1h 24m
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores del Río, Ricardo Cortez, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda, Hal Le Roy, Fifi D'Orsay, Merna Kennedy, Henry O'Neill, Robert Barrat, Henry Kolker, Gino Corrado, Jane Darwell, Bill Elliott, Pauline Garon, George Irving, Bert Moorhouse, Dave O'Brien, Dennis O'Keefe, Émile Chautard, Hobart Cavanaugh, Bud Jamison, Mildred Dixon, Marlo Dwyer, Ruth Eddings, Muriel Gordon, Robert Graves, Marie Marks, Donna Mae Roberts, Rosalie Roy, Kathryn Sergava, Victoria Vinton, Renee Whitney, Lottie Williams
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About the film
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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