Cinematography:
J. Roy HuntCast:
Frances Dee, Billie Burke, Ginger Rogers, Bruce Cabot, John Halliday, Beulah Bondi, Sara Haden, Anne Shirley, Irene Franklin, Jane Darwell, Frank Mills (more)Plots(1)
Another girls' school pranks-to-pregnancy picture stemming from the successes of MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM (1932) and EIGHT GIRLS IN A BOAT (1934), with comedy, pathos, bathos, and a few songs. This one bombed badly at the time of its release despite a strong cast and the presence of Rogers who, as the sophisticated, wise-cracking roommate of poor-little-rich-girl heroine Dee, got the scene-stealing role and played it brilliantly. Rogers' espoused philosophy--get away with whatever you can, just don't get caught--attunes well with that of the principal of the exclusive school, Bondi, and her pedantic minions, who wish above all else to avoid scandal. Dee's unhappiness--she contemplates suicide--is justified in conventional sociological terms by the inept foster-parenting of the snobbish school's staff and by her relative abandonment by her indifferent father, Halliday, and her social-climbing mother, Burke. Dee's depression is allayed somewhat by the jolly camaraderie of her schoolmates and by her interest in Cabot, a hospital intern and part-time waiter, and an unlikely choice as the juvenile. (He might have been either hero or heavy from his appearance and charisma in virtually any role he played.) Following the romance and the mandatory pregnancy, all ends well, with Dee wedding the poor-but-honest Cabot and finding a chance for middle-class happiness. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Frances Dee
USA
Best movies:
Come and Get It (1936)
Little Women (1933)
Of Human Bondage (1934)
Billie Burke
USA
Best movies:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Ginger Rogers
USA
Best movies:
The Green Mile (1999) - a.f.
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Bruce Cabot
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
King Kong (1933)
John Halliday
USA
Best movies:
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Desire (1936)
Peter Ibbetson (1935)
Beulah Bondi
USA
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Sara Haden
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Anne Shirley
USA
Best movies:
City Girl (1930)
4 Devils (1928)
Stella Dallas (1937)
Irene Franklin
USA
Best movies:
Saratoga (1937)
The Garden of Allah (1936)
Jane Darwell
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Love Is News (1937)
Caged (1950)
Frank Mills
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
Limelight (1952)
Fury (1936)
Joan Barclay
USA
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Love Crazy (1941)
These Three (1936)
King of Jazz (1930)
Theresa Harris
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Jezebel (1938)
Out of the Past (1947)
Jack Norton
USA
Best movies:
Front Page Woman (1935)
Marked Woman (1937)
Eddie Baker
USA
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
City Lights (1931)
Inherit the Wind (1960)