The Girl in the Show
5.4 /10 1 Votes
3.5/10 Letterboxd Genre Comedy Country United States | 7.3/10 IMDb Director Edgar Selwyn Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date August 31, 1929 (1929-08-31) Based on Eva the Fifth
by Kenyon Nicholson
John Golden Writer Kenyon Nicholson (play), John Golden (play), Edgar Selwyn (adaptation), Edgar Selwyn (added dialogue), Joseph Farnham (titles) Screenplay Joseph W. Farnham, Edgar Selwyn Story by Edgar Selwyn, John Golden, Kenyon Nicholson Cast Bessie Love (Hattie Hartley), Raymond Hackett (Mal Thorne), Edward J. Nugent (Dave Amazon), Mary Doran (Connie Bard), Jed Prouty (Newton Wampler), Ford Sterling (Ed Bondell)Similar movies Related Edgar Selwyn movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Girl in the Show is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Edgar Selwyn and written by Edgar Selwyn and Joseph Farnham. The film stars Bessie Love, Raymond Hackett, Edward Nugent, Mary Doran, and Jed Prouty. The film was released August 31, 1929, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Plot
A traveling Tom show is stranded in Kansas when their manager steals what meager funds they have. Hattie Hartley (Bessie Love), who plays Eva in the production, decides to marry the local undertaker, so that he will fund the troupe and pay for her younger sister's schooling. On the day of the wedding, the troupe is booked for a performance at the last minute. Hattie refuses to get married so that she can play the role of Eva, an act which reunites her with her true love, a member of their troupe.
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Reception
The film received negative reviews, with one reviewer claiming that people were yelling at the screen in the theater.
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