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Small Town Girl

1936 · 1h 46m · Comedy, Romance · United States of America

The most widely read romance of the year...with new romantic team!

Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.

Directed by
William A. Wellman
Written by
John Lee Mahin, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Edith Fitzgerald
Based on the novel by
Ben Ames Williams
Starring
Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes, Andy Devine
6.0Smart score

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