Sunshine of Paradise Alley

Barbara Bedford is the fix-it girl of Paradise Alley, a slum in New York. Informed the street is to be torn down to make way for a factory, she inveigles Gayne Whitman, whose mother owns the property, into trying to persuade her to change her mind in return for performing at a party.

The movie is eked out with the various colorful stock characters of the Alley, including a Chinese man, a circus acrobat whose boyfriend is using her grouch bag to finance his stepping out on her, as well as single representatives of other ethnic minorities, each given the usual pejorative name. There's also a subplot about some of Whitman's bonds being stolen by his employees, an attempted rape, and a Apache dance.

It's a typical cheap Poverty Row movie from Chadwick that wouldn't play in the big cities, but doubtless was reasonably popular in rotation in the smaller markets. Despite its rather time-worn and commonplace stereotypes it's amiable enough to be watchable. With Max Davidson, Tui Bow, Max Asher and Leon Janney.