Underplayed Gems

Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)

Fifth Avenue Girl poster
Directed by
Gregory La Cava
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 23m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A wealthy businessman is ignored by his own family so he pays a young woman to pretend to be his mistress. This gets his family's attention and causes comedic chaos.

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What happens

Fifth Avenue Girl, sometimes stylized as 5th Ave Girl, is a 1939 RKO Radio Pictures comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, and James Ellison. The screenplay was written by Allan Scott with uncredited contributions by La Cava and Morris Ryskind. The film is about a rich industrialist with business problems who feels neglected by his family and hires a young woman to stir things up. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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