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Primrose Path is a american film of genre Drama directed by Gregory La Cava released in USA on 22 march 1940 with Ginger Rogers

Primrose Path (1940)

Primrose Path
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Released in USA 22 march 1940
Length 1h33
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating67% 3.3954753.3954753.3954753.3954753.395475

Primrose Path is a 1940 film about a young woman determined not to follow the profession of her mother and grandmother, prostitution. It stars Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea. The film was based on the play of the same name by Robert L. Buckner and Walter Hart and the novel February Hill by Victoria Lincoln (uncredited for legal reasons).

Marjorie Rambeau was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.



^ Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p56

^ Hal Erickson. "Primrose Path Plot Synopsis". Allmovie. Retrieved 2008-06-04.

Synopsis

Tomboy Ellie May Adams (Ginger Rogers) keeps her virtue despite her difficult circumstances. Her alcoholic, Greek scholar father Homer (Miles Mander) is unemployable, leaving her loving mother Mamie (Marjorie Rambeau) to support the family by going out with men. Her ex-prostitute grandmother (Queenie Vassar) sees nothing wrong with their shared profession.

Actors

Ginger Rogers

(Ellie May Adams)Joel McCrea

(Ed Wallace)Marjorie Rambeau

(Mamie Adams)Henry Travers

(Gramp)Charlie Hall

(Man in Diner (uncredited))
And :
Miles Mander
Charles Lane
Vivienne Osborne
Bobby Barber
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