Primrose Path
6.8
“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.
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Cast
45 people
Ginger Rogers
Ellie May Adams
Known for
Top Hat
Monkey Business
Joel McCrea
Ed Wallace
Known for
Sullivan's Travels
Foreign Correspondent
Allan Scott
Gregory La Cava
Van Nest Polglase
Marjorie Rambeau
Mamie Adams
Known for
Tobacco Road
Werner R. Heymann
Henry Travers
Gramp
Known for
It's a Wonderful Life
Shadow of a Doubt
Robert L. Buckner
Mel Berns
Miles Mander
Homer
Known for
Murder, My Sweet
The Pleasure Garden
Walter Hart
Gregory La Cava Director · Allan Scott Screenplay Robert Buckner Author
Budget $702K · United States release March 22, 1940 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$702,000
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 22, 1940
Theatrical
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