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Peter (James Stewart) is a professor who gets hitched to a singer named Francey (Ginger Rogers) on a whim while visiting New York City. But when Peter returns home, he is less than eager to ...
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Professor Peter (James Stewart) is about to tell his family about his secret marriage to Francey (Ginger Rogers) when his previous girlfriend Helen (Frances Mercer) starts a famous fight, in George Stevens' Vivacious Lady, 1938.
Vivacious Lady is a 1938 American black-and-white romantic comedy film directed by George Stevens and starring Ginger Rogers and James Stewart. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The screenplay was written by P.J. Wolfson and Ernest Pagano and adapted from a short story by I. A. R. Wylie.
James Stewart plays bookish and dull college professor Peter Morgan who is in New York with his more outgoing cousin James Ellison who likes to party in nightclubs. Peter meets and immediately hits it off with singer Francey (Ginger Rogers), they get married and he takes her back home.
Nov 29, 2014 · Vivacious Lady - released 1938 - RKO PicturesDirected by George Stevens & Starring Ginger Rogers, Jimmy Stewart, Charles Coburn and Frances Mercer.
Stewart plays Peter Morgan, a young botany professor who while on a visit to New York impulsively marries free-spirited nightclub singer Francey (Rogers). A few obstacles lie in the path of connubial bliss, however, including Peter's bitchy ex-fiancee Helen (Frances Mercer) and his stern college-dean father Peter Morgan Sr. (Charles Coburn).
Sep 10, 2012 · Time Out says. Mostly a light-hearted fable in which nightclub dancer Rogers meets, falls for, and marries Professor James Stewart. Much humour is derived from the couple's inability to...
