Week Ninety-Six
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"Marry the Girl" 1937 Tommy as a farmboy |
MOVIE NAME: MARRY THE GIRL
STUDIO: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES INC.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: JACK L. WARNER and HAL B. WALLIS
PRODUCER: HARRY JOE BROWN
DIRECTOR: WILLIAM MCGANN
DATE: 1937
TYPE: NEWSPAPER, COMEDY
CAST:
MARY BOLAND as Ollie Radway , FRANK MCHUGH as David Partridge ,HUGH HERBERT as John B. Radway, CAROL HUGHES as Virginia Radway , ALLEN JENKINS as Specs , MISHA AUER as Dimitri, ALAN MOWBRAY as Dr. Stryker HUGH O'CONNELL as Michael Forrester, TEDDY HART as Bill, TOMMY BUPP, as a farmboy
SOURCE: A F I, Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940
STORY: Miss Ollie Radway, one of the owners of Radway Features Syndicate, orders Drake, the managing editor of the newspaper, to keep her niece Virginia away from the paper. When he objects, she fires him, saying she believes the job is so easy that she will give it to the first man who walks through the door. This man turns out to be David Partridge, an ineffectual employee. As soon as Drake leaves, chaos hits the newspaper. After Dr. Stryker, who writes a psychiatric column, quits his job, Ollie invites him to dinner, hoping to convince him to stay. Unfortunately for her plans, Virginia has invited Dimitri Kyeff, an artist also working at the newspaper, as her guest. Stryker and Dimitri quarrel and both storm off. Ollie sends Partridge after them. As he leaves, Virginia tells Partridge of her plans to elope with Dimitri and asks for his help. Despite his own love for Virginia, Partridge agrees, but Ollie discovers the plan and stops the elopement. To remove Virginia from temptation, Ollie pretends that her brother John must go to Stryker's sanitarium and suggests that Virginia drive him. Dimitri, who has no money, moves in with Partridge. Then Forrester, the cartoonist, shows up at Partridge's apartment, totally drunk. Partridge decides to Dr. Stryker's to sober him up, not knowing that Virginia is on her way there. At the sanitarium, Dimitri learns that Virginia has no money of her own and immediately transfers his affections to Ollie. Because he loves her, Partridge helps Virginia to escape from the sanitarium. While stooped at a cafe, they are kidnapped by gangsters, but Partridge's signals are seen by a boy scout, who brings the police. Then Partridge and Forrester, who was hidden in the car, find a stash of guns in a closet and shoot their way out of the room. When they return to the sanitarium, they learn that Ollieand Dimitri have married, leading Partridge to announce his engagement to Virginia.
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