Small Town Girl (1936)
1h 46m
Running Time
April 10, 1936Release Date
Small Town Girl (1936)
1h 46m
Running Time
April 10, 1936Release Date
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Plot.
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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Cast & Crew.
Janet Gaynor
Kay Brannan
Robert Taylor
Bob Dakin
Binnie Barnes
Priscilla Hyde
Lewis Stone
Dr. Dakin
Andy Devine
George Brannan
Elizabeth Patterson
Ma Brannan
William A. Wellman
Director
Frank Craven
Will 'Pa' Brannan
Robert Z. Leonard
Director
James Stewart
Elmer Clampett
John Lee Mahin
Writer
Frances Goodrich
Writer
Isabel Jewell
Emily 'Em' Brannan
Charley Grapewin
Dr. Ned Fabre
Albert Hackett
Writer
Edith Fitzgerald
Writer
Nella Walker
Mrs. Dakin
Robert Greig
Childers, Dakin's Butler
Edgar Kennedy
Captain Mack
Willie Fung
So-So
Agnes Ayres
Catherine (uncredited)
Leonard Carey
Concierge (uncredited)
Richard Carle
Jeffers Cass, J.P. (uncredited)
Claire Du Brey
Bit Role (uncredited)
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Wiki.
Small Town Girl is a 1936 American romantic comedy film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, and James Stewart. The supporting cast features Binnie Barnes, Andy Devine, Lewis Stone and Edgar Kennedy.
Based on a novel by Ben Ames Williams, the film went through many changes before it reached the screen. The script is credited to John Lee Mahin, Edith Fitzgerald, and the husband-and-wife team of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich.
It has no relation to the 1953 MGM musical film of the same title.