Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the ... See full summary »

Director:

Alexander Hall

Writers:

Lenore J. Coffee (story), William J. Cowen (story),

Stars:

Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly

Cast

Cast overview:
Melvyn Douglas	...	Ronald Brooke
Joan Blondell	...	Jenny Swanson
Walter Connolly	...	Olaf Brand
Alan Curtis	...	Tom Brand
Joan Perry	...	Sylvia Brand
Isabel Jeans	...	Caroline Brand
Stanley Brown	...	Ted Dayton Jr.
Alexander D'Arcy	...	Paul Kingston
Henry Hunter	...	Dennis Jeffers
Clarence Kolb	...	Ted Dayton Sr.
Howard C. Hickman	...	Jeffers - Brand's Butler

Storyline

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands...

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Plot Keywords:

campus | waitress | city name in title | place name in title | screwball comedy

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 June 1939 (USA)

Also Known As:

Good Girls Go to Paris, Too

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

75 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Originally titled "Good Girls Go To Paris, Too," but the censors objected.

User Reviews

Talent wasted

Joan Blondell saved many a movie. Here, as the star, she tries hard, but she is given lines which change her character from minute to minute. The lines are seldom funny. She was always at her best, both early and late in her career, as the brassy city broad, cynical, but with a heart of gold. She doesn't have this kind of role here. Her gold digging ambitions are out of character and are only a minor plot device. Melvin Douglas is Melvin Douglas, urbane, sophisticated, with a dry wit, but no witty lines at all. Walter Connelly, as usual, shouts his lines, but none of them are funny.

The good films of this type seem effortlessly written and performed. This kind of film shows, by its failures, just how great an effort those good films required.