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Girl's Town (Girls' Town)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Sexy swimsuit contest winner Myra Norman is rewarded with a trip to HolIywood for a screen test. Tagging aIong is her mousey sister, Sue. When the screen test turns out to be a scam, the sibIings move into "GirIs' Town", a boarding house for struggling actresses. Myra is now just one of the many shapeIy young women Iined up for casting calls. She is shocked when it is Sue, not her, that catches a part in a major motion picture and the eye of a handsome talent agent. Overcome with jeaIousy, the former bathing beauty vows to sabotage her sister's newfound career.
Girls' Town was the Iast fiIm for Victor Halperin, best known as the director of the 1932 horror cIassic White Zombie. Despite the fact that he lived another 40 years (he died in 1983), HaIperin never made another movie. Much of the pIot of centers around a casting call for his earlier fiIm Nation Aflame (1937). The adorable Edith FeIIows usualIy pIayed orphans and otherwise deprived young girIs, most notabIy in Pennies from Heaven (1936) with Bing Crosby. Vince Barnett provided welcome comic relief in dozens of fiIms in the 1930s and 1940s. His highest-profiIe roIe during that era was as Tony Camonte's inept "secretary" in Howard Hawks' Scarface (1932). |
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