Primrose Path (film)

Primrose Path is a 1940 film about a young woman determined not to follow the profession of her mother and grandmother, prostitution. It stars Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea. The film was based on the play of the same name by Robert L. Buckner and Walter Hart and the novel February Hill by Victoria Lincoln uncredited for legal reasons.

Tomboy Ellie May Adams Ginger Rogers keeps her virtue despite her difficult circumstances. Her alcoholic, Greek scholar father Homer Miles Mander is unemployable, leaving her loving mother Mamie Marjorie Rambeau to support the family by going out with men. Her exprostitute grandmother Queenie Vassar sees nothing wrong with their shared profession.One day, Ellie May warily accepts a ride to the beach from Gramp Henry Travers. Gramp runs a beachside restaurant and gas station along with wisecracking Ed Wallace Joel McCrea. Ellie May falls in love with Ed and eventually, after lying to him about being thrown out by her family over him, gets him to marry her. She becomes an industrious, wellliked waitress in the restaurant. ........

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