Small Town Girl (1936 film)

Small Town Girl 1936 is a film starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, and James Stewart. The romantic comedy was directed by William A. Wellman.

Kay Brannan Janet Gaynor is so bored with her life that she can barely tolerate her family and prospective suitor Elmer James Stewart. A traffic diversion brings hundreds of YaleHarvard football players through town. One of them, Robert Dakin Robert Taylor, a socially prominent surgeon from Boston, asks her for directions to a popular roadhouse and takes her there to join in the fun.Later Bob becomes so drunk that he insists that they have a justice of the peace marry them. Kay is not quite so drunk, but she agrees, eager for any escape from the tedium. The next morning, Bobs parents Lewis Stone, Nella Walker like Kay, but are shocked that Bob, who was to marry socialite Priscilla Hyde Binnie Barnes in two weeks, would be so foolhardy. To avoid a scandal, Bob suggests to Kay that they pretend to be happily married for six months and then quietly get a divorce. Although hurt, she agrees, and after a staged honeymoon aboard the Dakin family yacht, they return to Boston. Gradually, they begin to fall in love, but they still keep each other at arms length. ........

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