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Monday, January 6, 2025

These Glamour Girls (1939)

A young  but feisty taxi dancer (Lana Turner) is invited by a drunken but wealthy college boy (Lew Ayres) to a swanky upper crust weekend at his ivy league school. When she shows up, he doesn't even remember her. Humiliated, she turns the tables on the snobby college set. Based on a short story by Jane Hall and directed by S. Sylvan Simon (THE FULLER BRUSH MAN). An entertaining programmer with an 18 year old Lana Turner on the cusp of stardom. It's always fun to see snooty snobs get their comeuppance but there's more to some of the characters than just that. Notably, Marsha Hunt as an aging debutante unable to face that's she's no longer young. The movie telegraphs her tragic fate rather unsubtly. With Anita Louise, Ann Rutherford, Richard Carlson, Jane Bryan, Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Beth Hughes, Tom Brown and Ernest Truex. 

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