I began my evening of viewing with Joan Crawford's 1930 drama PAID. I really enjoyed it. An entertaining thread of an idea: a woman framed for theft gets sent up for three years even though she begs her boss to intercede at her sentencing hearing since she was innocent. The boss refuses and she vows revenge. During her three years, she studies the law, not to become a lawyer but to be able to run scams that circumvent the law, and she's very successful. Her biggest scam, though, is getting the son of the store owner to fall in love with her, eloping with him, and then letting him introduce her to his father as his wife. There's a rather tiresome art theft plot after that which is pretty lame, but until then, it is one of the best early Crawford movies that I've seen.
Douglass Montgomery played the son (he used his earlier screen name Kent Douglass then), and Robert Armstrong is the head of the scam gang.