Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl

106 mins | Comedy, Romance | April 10, 1936

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.

Small Town Girl

106 mins | Comedy, Romance | April 10, 1936

Small Town Girl
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Small Town Girl
Directors William A. Wellman
Writers Edith Fitzgerald, Ben Ames Williams, John Lee Mahin, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich

Cast

Janet Gaynor

as Katherine 'Kay' Brannan

Robert Taylor

as Dr. Robert 'Bob' Dakin

Binnie Barnes

as Priscilla Hyde

Andy Devine

as George Brannan

Lewis Stone

as Dr. Dakin

Elizabeth Patterson

as Ma Brannan

Frank Craven

as Will "Pa" Brannan

James Stewart

as Elmer Clampett

Isabel Jewell

as Emily 'Em' Brannan

Charley Grapewin

as Dr. Ned Fabre

Nella Walker

as Mrs. Dakin

Robert Greig

as Childers, Dakin's Butler

Edgar Kennedy

as Captain Mack

Willie Fung

as So-So

Agnes Ayres

as Catherine (uncredited)

Leonard Carey

as Concierge (uncredited)

Richard Carle

as Jeffers Cass, J.P. (uncredited)

Claire Du Brey

as Bit Role (uncredited)

Douglas Fowley

as Chick Page (uncredited)

Chester Gan

as Wing (uncredited)

Nora Lane

as Cissie (uncredited)

Drue Leyton

as Felicia (uncredited)

Robert Livingston

as Wedding Celebrant (uncredited)

Claire McDowell

as Woman in Bed (uncredited)

George Meeker

as Dr. Bill Underwood (uncredited)

Harold Miller

as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

as Dance Extra (uncredited)

Dennis O'Keefe

as Man Dancing in Tavern (uncredited)

Dick Wessel

as College Boy in Car (uncredited)