Primrose Path (1940)
The Play That Shocked New York And Rocked Broadway With Laughter!
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.
- Date of release
- 1940-03-22
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (26)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Gregory La Cava
Casting
- 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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