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Finishing School: Directed by George Nicholls Jr., Wanda Tuchock. With Frances Dee, Billie Burke, Ginger Rogers, Bruce Cabot. The trials and tribulations in a private, snobbish girls school.
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- Drama
- George Nicholls Jr., Wanda Tuchock
- 1934-05-04
Savvy Pony (Ginger Rogers) and novice pal Virginia (Frances Dee) from boarding school, having deployed a fake chaperone, arrive at their New York hotel for weekend partying, where waiter Mac (Bruce Cabot) soon becomes more relevant than their frat-boy dates, in , 1934. Film Details.
- Wanda Tuchock, George Nicholls Jr., Ed Killy
- Frances Dee
Finishing School is a 1934 pre-Code romantic drama film starring Frances Dee as a young woman who gets into trouble after being sent to a finishing school by her neglectful parents. This film was condemned by the Legion of Decency. Plot
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Schoolgirls in trouble! Drinking! Partying! Staying up late with boys in hotel rooms and boat houses!
“I’ve always wanted to get fried. Just to know how it feels.” Finishing School makes no immediate bones about the kind of movie its trying to be. Its opening credits, fashioned in that playful 1930s manner where characters are merely referred to as ‘The Girl’ or ‘The Boy’ and etc flashes across the screen. The sequence ends with “And the snob playe...
For its portrayals of out of wedlock pregnancy, smoking and drinking by underage schoolgirls, and the fact that the film doesn’t seem to discourage an ounce of this, Finishing School was condemned...
This film appeared in the Wikipedia List of Pre-Code Films.This film is available on Amazon and Warner Archive. I caught it over on Warner Instant.Finishing School (1934) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.
