Girls' School (film)
- Anne Shirley: Natalie Freeman
- Nan Grey: Linda Simpson
- Ralph Bellamy: Michael Hendragin
- Dorothy Moore: Betty Fleet
- Gloria Holden: Miss Laurel
- Margaret Tallichet: Gwennie
- Peggy Moran: Myra
- Kenneth Howell: Edgar
- Noah Beery Jr.: George Eleanor McClellan
- Cecil Cunningham: Miss Brewster, " The Duchess " ( Headmistress)
- Pierre Watkin: Alfred Simpson
Girls' School is an American feature film from the year 1938. Directed by John Brahm Anne Shirley, Nan Grey and Ralph Bellamy playing the lead roles. The screenplay is based on Tess Slesinger novella The Answer in the Magnolias, which was published in 1935 in New York.
Action
In the exclusive girls' Magnolia Hall is Linda Simpson, a wealthy and popular girl, watched by the scholarship holder Natalie Freeman in her class in how she still sneaks past curfew from her room and return until dawn. Linda confides in her roommate Betty Fleet that she has fallen in love with the writer Edgar and intend to elope with him. Through various circumstances is this the teachers Miss Laurel and Miss Armstrong 's ears and Linda's parents will be notified. When Natalie learns that they live separately, they fit from Linda's father at the school entrance and asks him to wait for Linda's mother, so that both can enter the school together. After the Simpsons have donated a considerable sum for a new library, ask the headmistress Miss Brewster, who has received from the girls the title " The Duchess ", Linda's parents, not too hard to go to court with her daughter. The Simpsons even agree to participate jointly in Linda's upcoming in the near future graduation ceremony. On the night before the prom Linda receives a special bouquet of Edgar and a beautiful corsage of her father. Without Linda's knowledge of her father Natalie lets an identical piece of clothing come in the hope that the girls become friends. When Linda Natalie, who has the corsage immediately attracted to dance so looks, they accused the classmate of stealing her this. Then Natalie loses control and treated Linda a beat. When Miss Brewster asked of her to advocate to apologize to Linda, she prefers to run it. Violently sobbing Natalie is found by George McClellan, a boy from her hometown, which has long been in love with her and asks her to marry him.
In the meantime, Linda has become clear that she has done wrong Natalie, because in addition to the bouquet in her room she finds the corsage. Linda now does everything possible to make up for their mistakes, and decide both girls, first of all to make their graduation at the school and to become friends.
Production and background
The filming for Girls' School began on July 5 and ended on August 6, 1938. Working title of the film was The Romantic Age. According to recent sources Tess Slesinger screenplay was based on the experience they had made as a teacher at a private school. The film opened in 1938 in the American cinema.
Anne Shirley was a very successful child actress. Her first film she turned in 1922 at the age of four years under the name Dawn O'Day ( Dawn, Dawn ). When she in 1934 in the film adaptation of the well-known Art Paper Anne took over the role of Anne Shirley of Green Gables, she called from this time Anne Shirley. When rotation of the Girls' School, she was only 20 years old, but already married to John Payne. Also, Nan Grey, the actress who plays Linda Simpson, was just 20 years old and got married during the production period the jockey Jack Westrope. Margaret Tallichet, the actress who Gwennie, was 24 years old and married with the director William Wyler. Noah Beery Jr., who has the role of George McClellan, later became the father of played by James Garner The Rockford Files - Just call known beyond the United States.
Criticism
Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times raises the question of whether nice girls indeed the whole night sitting on a hockey field, while the scent of magnolias they fanned, and are satisfied with the in- air poetry? Nugent concludes that this was a terrible idea, but somehow likeable. The critic praises the fact that in the movie beautiful pictures were housed with a lot of tenderness and understanding and a lively troupe of young Outsmart poignant. Brahm and its authors were the scenes well put together and through the presentation of such trifles as preparations for the prom, whisper secrets, and fluttering Alumni at the arrival of the men, a confidential and honest picture of a typical girls' school had arisen. "So it seems at least one, which was never allowed to attend. " Special mention must Anne Shirley found in their supervisor role, but Nan Grey as Romantikerin on the hockey field and Gloria Holden and Cecil Cunningham as head teachers.
Awards
Morris Stoloff and Gregory Stone were honored with an Oscar nomination for her musical score. However, the Oscar went to Alfred Newman and the film Alexander 's Ragtime Band.