Feature1938·90m·7.0

Vivacious Lady

Ginger goes to college but not the way you think

ComedyRomance

College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

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Cast

Ginger Rogers

Francey

James Stewart

Peter

James Ellison

Keith

Beulah Bondi

Mrs. Morgan

Charles Coburn

Mr. Morgan

Frances Mercer

Helen

Phyllis Kennedy

Jenny

Franklin Pangborn

Apartment Manager

Grady Sutton

Culpepper

Jack Carson

Waiter Captain

Alec Craig

Joseph

Willie Best

Porter

Spencer Charters

Husband Shaving on Train (uncredited)

Phyllis Fraser

(uncredited)

Lloyd Ingraham

Mr. Noble (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

Train Conductor #2 (uncredited)

Kenner G. Kemp

Man in Train Corridor (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Kay Sutton

Woman Exiting Train at Old Sharon (uncredited)

Bobby Barber

Italian Waiter at Nightclub (uncredited)

Details

Status: Released
Original language: English
Languages: English
Budget: $703,000
Revenue: $1.2M
Age rating: —
Quality: 4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Crew

Director

George Stevens

Writers

P.J. Wolfson, Ernest Pagano, I.A.R. Wylie

Bernard Newman

Costume Design

Robert De Grasse

Director of Photography

Irene

Costume Design

Henry Berman

Editor

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Reviews

DanDare

9/23/2017

5.0

James Stewart plays bookish and dull college professor Peter Morgan who is in New York with his more outgoing cousin James Ellison who likes to party in nightclubs. Peter meets and immediately hits it off with singer Francey (Ginger Rogers), they get married and he takes her back home. Trouble is that he has not told his parents that he has got married. His dad is very conservative, his mum is rather meek and Peter just wants to be with his wife but ends up passing his wife off as his cousin's girlfriend. It is all very good natured, Rogers is really wonderful in her role, Stewart's character is too weak but the film meanders too much into silliness.