RKO Radio Picture
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers
Directed by: Gregory La Cava
Synopsis: Ellie May Adams (Ginger Rogers) is the oldest daughter in a poor family whose reputation is shaky because her mother (Marjorie Rambeau) supports the family through prostitution while her college-graduated father (Miles Mander) battles the bottle. But her world changes when she meets and falls in love with Ed Wallace (Joel McCrea), a hard-working burger joint and gas station attendant. Unfortunately she lies about her family, which later puts their young marriage in danger.
Purr Blur: At the very beginning of the film we see the Adams’ abode, a shack in a shanty town. Ellie’s little sister Honeybell (Joan Carroll) comes home with a couple of tamales she stole from one of the neighbors and which she shares with her grandmother (Queenie Vassar.) There is a kitten sitting on a chair at the kitchen table when Honeybell walks in but she roughly pushes the kitten off the chair as she sits down.
Later we see the kitten sitting in a box upstage as the mother returns home. Sadly the kitten is not seen in the film again.
Final Mewsings: No home is poor which includes a kitten.
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