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In the early 1950s, Angela Gardner is a burlesque star known as Hot Garters Gertie. She started working as an exotic dancer solely to earn money for a college education. She wants to be a writer, and has been working on a play for many years.
She's Working Her Way Through College: Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. With Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan, Gene Nelson, Don DeFore. A burlesque dancer goes to college, where she romances a professor and helps put on a musical show.
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- Comedy, Musical
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- 1952-07-12
SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE (1952) is a musical adaptation of an earlier comedy THE MALE ANIMAL (1942), starring Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland. The story has been tweaked a little, but the inspiration is still pretty clear for those familiar with the original.
Where Mr. Thurber and Mr. Nugent were pointedly concerned with the fate of a college professor on the verge of losing his wife and his job, Peter Milne, who wrote the screen play for this ...
Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor’s wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show…but someone has discovered her secret past.
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- Warner Bros. Pictures
She's Working Her Way Through College - (Original Trailer) Virginia Mayo and Ronald Reagan take the lead roles in a musical remake of The Male Animal, She's Working Her Way Through College (1952).
The screenplay is based on the 1940 Broadway play The Male Animal by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent, although the play's title is not mentioned in the screen credits. She's Working Her Way Through College is a 1952 American comedy film produced by Warner Bros.
