THE PRIMROSE PATH (1940) M/f, runnig around, night gown, w

Based on the play by Robert L. Buckner and Walter Hart, that was filmed several times.

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.

But finally he decides to clean up in her family, which he does in the final scene. That includes actually swatting her little sister Honeybell back to her bed, after she tries to attack him, and demanding that she will be sent to school again.


spanker: Joel McCrea
spankee: Joan Carroll


director: Gregory La Cava