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Primrose Path

"The Play That Shocked New York And Rocked Broadway With Laughter!"

User Score24 votes
66%6.6/10
Release1940
Runtime1H 33M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased

Synopsis

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.

Principal Cast8

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Director

Gregory La Cava

Gregory La Cava

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Certification

NR

Keywords

based on novel or bookmarriagealcoholismpovertyprostitution

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CinemaSerf6/10

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.

Jun 23, 2022

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Production:RKO Radio Pictures