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5th Avenue Girl (1939)

Directed by Gregory La Cava

When Walter Connolly’s wealthy industrialist strikes up a friendship with Ginger Rogers’ working girl, his jaded patrician brood goes from concern to alarm after he moves her into their palatial 5th Avenue mansion.  Is she a gold digger or has he really fallen in love?  The answers come as brilliant screwball comedy in this late-Depression era social satire.

RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.  Producer: Gregory La Cava.  Screenwriter: Allan Scott.  Cinematographer: Robert de Grasse.  Editor: Robert Wise.  Cast: Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, James Ellison, Tim Holt. 

16mm, b/w, 83 min.