Small Town Girl is one of my all time favorite movies! It’s on TCM right now!
Kay, played by Janet Gaynor, is the small town girl who lives at home and works in the family store, every day is the same, but she wants something more, something different, she wants out of the small town.
She sees her opportunity, sort of, in Robert Taylor, a young doctor in town for the big Harvard-Yale game. He passes by in his model T, slightly inibriated, and asks for directions, then proceeds to persuade her to get in and guide her. Keep in mind this is 1936, no woogie or funny business.
She goes with him to the party, they get champagne and more champagne, she has all of one glass and he’s “blotso” then end up in the car again, good advertising for drinking and driving! They end up crashing near a justice of the peace and guess what happens next.
When they wake up, they head to his house to face his parents, quite wealthy parents, you find out that Robert is a prominent doctor and playboy and engaged to someone. Because he has had so many public scandals, they decide to stay married for six months, to save face, then they’ll get a divorce and he can marry the woman he really loves.
If you can guess what happens over the next six months, you’d be right. She finally leaves because she is watching him love someone else, but guess who comes to find her?
Happy ending!
I really love this movie!
Peaches Prattlings 