The Petty Girl

The Petty Girl 1950, also known as Girl of the Year, is a musical romantic comedy Technicolor film starring Robert Cummings and Joan Caulfield. Cummings portrays painter George Petty who falls for Victoria Braymore Caulfield, the youngest professor at Braymore College who eventually becomes The Petty Girl.

Meanwhile, Victoria Braymore Joan Caulfield, the youngest professor at Braymore College, attends a conference in New York to defend the school against charges that it is outdated and oldfashioned. She has led a sheltered life, raised by the older professors after the death of her parents the founders of the college, and is only allowed to go with a chaperone, her friend Dr. Crutcher Elsa Lanchester.George meets Victoria in an art museum. She resists his attempts to become better acquainted, but finally agrees to dinner, provided he finds a date for Dr. Crutcher. Desperate, he gets Beardsley to pretend to be his uncle Ben. The dinner is a disaster Beardsley gets drunk, Dr. Crutcher thinks she is Georges date, and Victoria is distant. Finally, George decides to leave, when Victoria surprises him by accompanying him to a nightclub frequented by artists. When a drink is spilled on her dress, she goes to the powder room, where the attendant offers to iron it. However, the police raid the establishment in the rush of escaping people, Victoria ends up getting arrested dressed only in her slip. Her picture is published on the front page of the newspaper. It should be noted that an almost identical scene occurred in the movie Together Again 1944. ........

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