

Primrose Path
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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- English
- based on novel or book
- marriage
- alcoholism
- poverty
- prostitution
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- TheatricalNR22 Mar 1940
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Primrose Path was released on 22 March 1940.
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CinemaSerf
6/23/2022
There's some pretty good acting here. Ginger Rogers is "Ellie May" who lives in a ramshackle house with her mum, dipso father and her sister. When she meets a local blue collar gent "Ed" (Joel McCrae) they are soon smitten - the only snag is, she had omitted telling him some fairly important details from her past and when he finds out, their relationship becomes strained and compromised. The story, in itself, is real…
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