Vivacious Lady
Ginger goes to college but not the way you think
1938 | 90m | English
Popularity: 0.6 (history)
| Director: | George Stevens |
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| Writer: | P.J. Wolfson, Ernest Pagano, I.A.R. Wylie |
| Staring: |
| College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer. | |
| Release Date: | May 13, 1938 |
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| Director: | George Stevens |
| Writer: | P.J. Wolfson, Ernest Pagano, I.A.R. Wylie |
| Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
| Keywords | professor, affectation, marriage crisis, marriage, love, suitor, secret marriage, secret wedding, disapproving parent |
| Production Companies | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $1,206,000
Budget: $703,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 09, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Ginger Rogers | Francey |
| James Stewart | Peter |
| James Ellison | Keith |
| Beulah Bondi | Mrs. Morgan |
| Charles Coburn | Mr. Morgan |
| Frances Mercer | Helen |
| Phyllis Kennedy | Jenny |
| Franklin Pangborn | Apartment Manager |
| Grady Sutton | Culpepper |
| Jack Carson | Waiter Captain |
| Alec Craig | Joseph |
| Willie Best | Porter |
| Spencer Charters | Man Shaving on Train (uncredited) |
| Phyllis Fraser | (uncredited) |
| Lloyd Ingraham | Mr. Noble (uncredited) |
| Franklyn Farnum | Train Conductor #2 (uncredited) |
| Kenner G. Kemp | Man in Train Corridor (uncredited) |
| Bert Moorhouse | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) |
| Kay Sutton | Woman Exiting Train at Old Sharon (uncredited) |
| Bobby Barber | Italian Waiter at Nightclub (uncredited) |
| Lee Bennett | Student (uncredited) |
| Maude Eburne | Nagging Wife of Man Shaving on Train (uncredited) |
| Hattie McDaniel | Hattie - Maid at Prom Dance (uncredited) |
| Dorothy Moore | Hat-Check Girl (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| P.J. Wolfson | Screenplay |
| George Stevens | Director |
| Van Nest Polglase | Art Direction |
| Roy Webb | Music Director |
| George Jessel | Songs |
| Pandro S. Berman | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Irene | Costume Design |
| Jack Meskill | Songs |
| Ernest Pagano | Screenplay |
| I.A.R. Wylie | Story |
| Robert De Grasse | Director of Photography |
| Henry Berman | Editor |
| Bernard Newman | Costume Design |
| W. Argyle Nelson | Assistant Director |
| Carroll Clark | Assistant Art Director |
| Ted Shapiro | Songs |
| Darrell Silvera | Set Dresser |
| Hugh McDowell Jr. | Sound Recordist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| George Stevens | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 6 |
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James Stewart plays bookish and dull college professor Peter Morgan who is in New York with his more outgoing cousin James Ellison who likes to party in nightclubs. Peter meets and immediately hits it off with singer Francey (Ginger Rogers), they get married and he takes her back home. Trouble is ... that he has not told his parents that he has got married. His dad is very conservative, his mum is rather meek and Peter just wants to be with his wife but ends up passing his wife off as his cousin's girlfriend. It is all very good natured, Rogers is really wonderful in her role, Stewart's character is too weak but the film meanders too much into silliness.