Primrose Path (1940)

6.7/10 93 min Drama Romance

Overview

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.

Cast

Ginger Rogers

Ellie May Adams

Joel McCrea

Ed Wallace

Marjorie Rambeau

Mamie Adams

Henry Travers

Gramp

Miles Mander

Homer

Queenie Vassar

Grandma

Joan Carroll

Honeybell

Vivienne Osborne

Thelma

Bobby Barber

Benny (uncredited)

Louise Beavers

Woman Talking to Police (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)

Jack Gargan

Al (uncredited)

Robert Emmett Keane

Gossip in Diner (uncredited)

Charles Lane

Mr. Smith (uncredited)

Matt McHugh

Drunk Leaving Bluebell (uncredited)

Ernie Adams

Man in Bluebell (uncredited)

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