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Primrose Path is a 1940 film about a young woman determined not to follow the profession of her mother and grandmother: prostitution. It stars Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea. The film was an adaptation of the novel February Hill by Victoria Lincoln (uncredited for legal reasons).
Primrose Path: Directed by Gregory La Cava. With Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers. A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but after he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.
Primrose Path (1940) -- (Movie Clip) There Must Be Clams! Impoverished Ellie May (Ginger Rogers) has just met beachfront hash-slinger Ed (Joel McCrea), who decides to give her some tips on clamming, early in Gregory La Cava's Primrose Path, 1940.
Hoping not to become a prostitute like her mother (Marjorie Rambeau) and grandmother (Queenie Vassar), Ellie fights to keep her dignity by marrying the charming Ed Wallace (Joel McCrea) and lying...
Rogers made another exceptional drama that year: this overlooked gem that pushed boundaries wit ...more. 1940 marked a high point in Ginger Rogers' career: it was the year of Kitty Foyle, which...
Primrose Path is a 1940 film about a young woman determined not to follow the profession of her mother and grandmother, prostitution. It stars Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea.
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.
