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These Glamour Girls (1939)

These Glamour Girls poster
Directed by
S. Sylvan Simon
Genre
comedy drama, romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 19m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy college student brings a working class taxi dancer to a snobbish weekend party as a joke. The film skewers social class differences through their unlikely romance.

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What happens

These Glamour Girls is a 1939 American screwball comedy drama film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Lew Ayres and Lana Turner. A satire on social class, the film follows an uppercrust male college student (Ayres) who drunkenly invites a taxi dancer (Turner) to spend the weekend with him at his snobbish college. It is based on a story of the same name by Jane Hall, originally published in Cosmopolitan magazine. Tom Brown, Jane Bryan, Richard Carlson, Anita Louise, Marsha Hunt, and Ann Rutherford appear in supporting roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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