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Jane Hall (story)
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Release Date:
18 August 1939 (USA) more
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Plot:
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her... more | full synopsis
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A Tired Story But Marsha Hunt Shines more (6 total)

Cast

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Lew Ayres ... Philip S. 'Phil' Griswold III

Lana Turner ... Jane Thomas
Tom Brown ... Homer Ten Eyck
Richard Carlson ... Joe
Jane Bryan ... Carol Christy
Anita Louise ... Daphne 'Daph' Graves
Marsha Hunt ... Betty Ainsbridge
Ann Rutherford ... Mary Rose Wilston
Mary Beth Hughes ... Ann Van Reichton
Owen Davis Jr. ... Greg Smith
Ernest Truex ... Alumnus of Harvard
Sumner Getchell ... Blimpy
Peter Lind Hayes ... Skel Lorimer (as Peter Hayes)
Don Castle ... Jack
Tom Collins ... Tommy Torgler
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Runtime:
79 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie more

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A Tired Story But Marsha Hunt Shines, 9 March 2006
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Author: aimless-46 from Kentucky

A year after appearing together in "Love Finds Andy Hardy", Lana Turner and Ann Rutherford were paired up in two 1939 films: "These Glamour Girls" and "Dancing Co-Ed". Beyond having a college setting (with Turner playing an outsider), there was little similarity between the two films. Although much more ambitious, "Those Glamour Girls" is not in the same class as the more entertaining and lyrical "Dancing Co-Ed".

It is the standard depression era story contrasting the shallowness of the upper class and their moral depravity with the virtuous working class. Direction-less rich boy Philip S. 'Phil' Griswold III (Lew Ayres) invites dance club hostess Jane Thomas (Turner) to spend the weekend at his elite college where the various clubs are hosting a big dance.

Jane receives a mixed welcome from his crowd, the rich boys view her as an exotic novelty and the snooty girls as an inferior. As always happens in this standard story the rich people learn a lot of life lessons from the poor girl and are transformed into better, more responsible and mature citizens.

Turner is horribly miscast as the tough girl with a heart of gold. She has little chemistry with Ayres and looks grumpy and distressed most of the time. Her biggest assets were her smile and comic timing, making her much better physically as the wholesome girl-next-door than in this type of "too serious" role. Except for one very nice dance number at the midway point of the film there is nothing to even suggest that she would become a star.

This early twenties coming-of-age story tries to tackle more issues than it can reasonably handle, too many issues mean at best a superficial treatment for each. The results are disappointing as little of the interplay and character growth is convincing.

One exception is an excellent performance by Marsha Hunt as Betty Ainsbridge, a slightly older girl who has been left behind by her contemporaries and is trying to fit in with the younger crowd. Hunt (also a "Andy Hardy" veteran) does a great job of conveying the insecurities and desperation of a woman of that era confronting a future that holds fewer and fewer options for her. Unfortunately, her story is almost incidental to the main action of the film.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

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