Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
Director:
Gregory La Cava
Tagline:
« From park bench to parkside mansion in a riot of romantic complications and Hi-Hat Hilarity! »
Actors:
Mary Grey
Timothy Borden
Martha Borden
Mike
Tim Borden
Rating:
(2’061 votes)
(2’061 votes)
Quotes:
« Mr. Borden: Well, Michael, there seems to be a touch of spring in the air.
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« Mike: Yes sir, that's something even the poor people can enjoy.
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« Mary Grey: I guess rich people are just poor people with money.
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« Mr. Borden: [Seeing Mary eat an apple for her dinner] Are you on a diet?
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« Mary Grey: Yes, but against my wishes.
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Runtime:83 minutes
Plots:
Feeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress.
Troubled with union problems in his business and lonely on his birthday because his wife, Martha, is out with a playboy, millionaire Timothy Borden meets unemployed and hungry Mary Grey in a park and convinces her to help him celebrate at a nightclub. Much to his surprise the following morning, Mary has slept in the guest room for the night. Not unmindful that Martha’s interest in Timothy seems renewed, he hires Mary to stay at the house as an employee and they go out on the town virtually every night. Mary meanwhile has a positive effect on other members of the household: daughter Katherine is in love with Michael, the communism-spouting chauffeur, and seeks her advice; and son Tim is forced to take over the neglected business to keep it from running downhill, which Timothy had been trying unsuccessfully to get him to do. Complications arise with the various family members’ love interest struggles,. and Mary is caught in the middle.
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