Primrose Path (1940)Girl from the "wrong" side of the tracks falls in love with an ambitious young man from the "right" side of the tracks. Director:Gregory La Cava |
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Primrose Path (1940)Girl from the "wrong" side of the tracks falls in love with an ambitious young man from the "right" side of the tracks. Director:Gregory La Cava |
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| Ginger Rogers | ... |
Ellie May Adams
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| Joel McCrea | ... |
Ed Wallace
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Marjorie Rambeau | ... |
Mamie Adams
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| Henry Travers | ... |
Gramp
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Miles Mander | ... |
Homer
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Queenie Vassar | ... |
Grandma
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Joan Carroll | ... |
Honeybell
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Vivienne Osborne | ... |
Thelma
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Carmen Morales | ... |
Carmelita
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Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage. Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
This is one of Gregory La Cava's last pictures and doesn't seem to be very well known. Film critic Andrew Sarris didn't seem to think much of it in his book The American Cinema, and rates it as one of his lower pictures. I never would of watched this movie before until i discovered how great Ginger Rogers was and now i want to watch all her films. Rogers plays a poor girl who lives in the slums with a drunk father, a prostitute for a mother and some other relatives. Rogers has no interest in guys until she meets Joel McCrea at a restaurant and they wind up married. She lies about her family to him and it causes some problems between them. Ginger Rogers is good as usual and Joel McCrea is very good as the husband.