The Girl Rush
5.2 /10 1 Votes5.2
Costume design Edith Head Country United States | 5/10 Genre Comedy, Musical Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 1955 (1955-09) Writer Robert Pirosh (screenplay), Jerry Davis (screenplay), Phoebe Ephron (story), Henry Ephron (story) Genres Comedy, Musical, Musical comedy Cast (Kim Halliday), (Victor Monte), (Elliot Atterbury), (Taffy Tremaine), (Aunt Clara), James Gleason (Ether Ferguson)Similar movies Wild Card , Dr. No , Mississippi Grind , The Hangover , California Split , Ticket to Vegas |
Rosalind russell the girl rush if you ll only take a chance
The Girl Rush (1955) is an American musical comedy film starring Rosalind Russell, filmed in Technicolor and VistaVision, and released by Paramount Pictures.
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Plot

Gambling is second nature to Kim Halliday (Russell), whose father taught her all its ins and outs. Unfortunately, he also left her broke, living in Rhode Island and working as a receptionist in a museum run by her aunt Clara (Lorne).
A stroke of luck comes Kim's way when notified that an uncle in Las Vegas has died and left her a 50% interest in a hotel-casino. She excitedly takes Aunt Clara there, but in reality, the hotel is a ramshackle mess and her partner is heavily in debt.
Kim is deceived into believing that the hotel she owns is actually the thriving Flamingo Hotel, right across the street. So it comes as quite a surprise to its real owner, Victor Monte, when a total stranger begins behaving as if the place is hers.
Taffy Tremaine is performing there, and she's just jealous enough to be concerned that Victor might take a fancy to this new woman rather than to her. Kim eventually learns the truth about the two hotels, but catches a break by being introduced to Elliot Atterbury, a naive rich boy who'd like to own a Vegas hotel.
Together they spruce up Kim's hotel, rename it, hire Taffy to perform and give the Flamingo a run for its money. Taffy happily takes up with Elliot instead, while Victor concedes defeat. Once a gambler who lost everything, as Kim's father did, he tells Kim that he's gone broke again from losses at the tables and from the Flamingo's loss of business, so he's leaving town.
Kim persuades him to stay, wanting them to become partners in more ways than one. Victor agrees, whereupon Kim learns that he and the Flamingo are actually having no money troubles at all, their new partnership being what he'd had in mind all along.
Cast
Music
All tunes written by Hugh Martin (music) and Ralph Blane (words)
References
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