''These Glamour Girls'' is a 1939 comedy-drama film directed by

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and starring

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and

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, with Tom Brown,

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, Richard Carlson,

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and

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in featured roles.

Plot summary

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.

Cast

as Philip S. 'Phil' Griswold III *

as Jane Thomas * Tom Brown as Homer Ten Eyck * Richard Carlson as Joe *

as Carol Christy *

as Daphne 'Daph' Graves * Marsha Hunt as Betty Ainsbridge *

as Mary Rose Wilston *

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as Ann Van Reichton * Owen Davis Jr. as Greg Smith *

Ernest Truex Ernest Truex (September 19, 1889 – June 26, 1973) was an American actor of stage, film, and television. Career Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Truex learned acting at an early age after his father, a doctor, treated actor Edwin Melvin, who ...

as Alumnus of Harvard * Sumner Getchell as Blimpy *

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as Skel Lorimer (as Peter Hayes) * Don Castle as Jack * Tom Collins as Tommy Torgler

Reception

According to MGM records the film earned $420,000 in the US and Canada and $160,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $33,000.

References

External links

* * * * 1939 films 1930s romantic comedy-drama films American black-and-white films American romantic comedy-drama films 1930s English-language films Films directed by S. Sylvan Simon Films set in universities and colleges Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films 1939 comedy films 1939 drama films Films scored by Edward Ward (composer) 1930s American films {{1930s-comedy-drama-film-stub