
Primrose Path (1940)
The Play That Shocked New York And Rocked Broadway With Laughter!
93 min
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.
- Release date
- March 22, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Ginger Rogers as Ellie May Adams
- Joel McCrea as Ed Wallace
- Marjorie Rambeau as Mamie Adams
- Henry Travers as Gramp
- Miles Mander as Homer
- Queenie Vassar as Grandma
- Joan Carroll as Honeybell
- Vivienne Osborne as Thelma
- Carmen Morales as Carmelita
- Ernie Adams as Man in Bluebell
Crew
- Gregory La Cava · Director
- Allan Scott · Writer
- Gregory La Cava · Writer
- Robert L. Buckner · Writer
- Walter Hart · Writer
- Werner R. Heymann · Composer
- Joseph H. August · Cinematographer
- William Hamilton · Editor