Professional Sweetheart

Professional Sweetheart

73 mins | Comedy, Romance | June 9, 1933

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.

Professional Sweetheart

73 mins | Comedy, Romance | June 9, 1933

Professional Sweetheart
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers RKO Radio Pictures
Original title Professional Sweetheart
Directors William A. Seiter
Writers Maurine Dallas Watkins

Cast

Ginger Rogers

as Glory Eden

Norman Foster

as Jim Davey

Zasu Pitts

as Elmerada de Leon

Frank McHugh

as Speed Dennis

Allen Jenkins

as O'Connor

Gregory Ratoff

as Samuel 'Sam' Ipswich

Franklin Pangborn

as Herbert Childress

Lucien Littlefield

as Ed, the Announcer

Edgar Kennedy

as Tim Kelsey

Theresa Harris

as Vera

Etta Moten

as "My Imaginary Sweetheart" Singer (voice, uncredited)