Primrose Path

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

6.7(25)19401h 33m

DramaRomance

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.

Director

Gregory La Cava

Cast

Ginger Rogers

Ellie May Adams

Joel McCrea

Ed Wallace

Marjorie Rambeau

Mamie Adams

Henry Travers

Gramp

Miles Mander

Homer

Queenie Vassar

Grandma

Joan Carroll

Honeybell

Vivienne Osborne

Thelma

Carmen Morales

Carmelita

Bobby Barber

Benny (uncredited)

Louise Beavers

Woman Talking to Police (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)

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1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

6.0

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...