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Primrose Path

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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.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1940-03-22

Runtime: 93 mins

Director: Gregory La Cava

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama, Romance

Original title: Primrose Path

Production Companies: RKO Radio Pictures

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Ginger Rogers

Joel McCrea

Marjorie Rambeau

Henry Travers

Miles Mander

Queenie Vassar

Joan Carroll

Vivienne Osborne

Carmen Morales

Bobby Barber

Woman Talking to Police (uncredited)

Louise Beavers

Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

Al (uncredited)

Jack Gargan

Gossip in Diner (uncredited)

Robert Emmett Keane

Reviews

Geronimo1967

There's some pretty good acting here. Ginger Rogers is "Ellie May" who lives in a ramshackle house with her mum, dipso father and her sister. When she meets a local blue collar gent "Ed" (Joel McCrae) they are soon smitten - the only snag is, she had omitted telling him some fairly important details from her past and when he finds out, their relationship becomes strained and compromised. The story, in itself, is really pretty straightforward - it's the performances that help it stand out a bit. Marjorie Rambeau is super as the mother, as is Miles Mander as the well meaning father and Henry Travers could never really put a foot wrong with his grand-paternal style of comforting performance. Rogers and MaCrae do their jobs, too - though nothing too spectacular as the dialogue they share is quite limiting. Still, it's a good enough tale of the benefits of telling the truth that still holds together well.

2022-06-23

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