Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1938
Girls' School (1938 film)
Buy Girls' School (1938 film) now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'Girls' School' is a 1938 comedy film starring Anne Shirley. The film was directed by John Brahm and based upon a Tess Slesinger story. Morris Stoloff and Gregory Stone were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring.
Plot
The film revolves around wealthy high school teenagers who are sent to Magnolia Hall, a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. One of the girls causes a scandal when she stays out all night, then announces on planning to elope with a boy. She gets in trouble when the faculty finds out through a monitor's report from a reluctant poor girl attending on scholarship.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110520131309/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/93252/Girls-School/overview The New York Times Review]
Cast
*Anne Shirley - Natalie Freeman
*Ralph Bellamy - Michael Hendragin
*Nan Grey - Linda Simpson
*Dorothy Moore - Betty Fleet
*Gloria Holden - Miss Laurel
*Marjorie Main - Miss Honore Armstrong
*Cecil Cunningham - Miss Brewster, Dean of Students
*Doris Kenyon - Mrs. Howard
*Margaret Tallichet - Gwennie
*Peggy Moran - Myra
References
Buy Girls' School (1938 film) now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1938