Play Girl

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Norman Foster and Winnie Lightner in Play Girl (1932)

A young woman's financial problems continue through a troubled marriage to a gambler.A young woman's financial problems continue through a troubled marriage to a gambler.A young woman's financial problems continue through a troubled marriage to a gambler.

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5.9/10

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Winnie Lightner

Georgine Hicks

Loretta Young

Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis

Norman Foster

Wallace 'Wally' Dennis

Guy Kibbee

'Finky' Finkelwald

Dorothy Burgess

Edna

Noel Madison

Martie Happ

James Ellison

Elmer

Edward Van Sloan

Moffatt - the Boss

Sheila Bromley

Wedding Girl
(scenes deleted)

Betty Farrington

Mrs. Braddock
(scenes deleted)

Ralf Harolde

Willie
(scenes deleted)

Nat Pendleton

Dance Hall Plumber
(scenes deleted)

Harold Waldridge

Messenger
(scenes deleted)

Robert Bennett

Floor Boy
(uncredited)

Eileen Carlisle

Rose, a Salesgirl
(uncredited)

Eddy Chandler

Delivery Man
(uncredited)

Charles Coleman

Floorwalker
(uncredited)

Jack Curtis

Carpenter in Hardware Department
(uncredited)

User reviews13

Featured review

4/10

Loretta the lovely

The title is meaningless, the story just as pointless, and whatever interest there is to be derived from this girl-loves-gambler weepie comes from the delicate beauty of Loretta Young. The film is a feast for the eyes (with nary a morsel of food for thought) as masterly cinematographer Gregg Toland captures the poetry of Young's huge, soulful peepers and full promising lips with one lovestruck close-up after another. The following year's "Zoo in Budapest" and "Man's Castle" would cement her position as the Depression's most desirable waif, the pin-up girl of the bread lines. With the barrelhouse comedienne Winnie Lightner as her wisecracking pal and Guy Kibbee, criminally wasted as Lightner's swain.

Fred_Rap
Nov 24, 2007
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Trivia
Film debut of James Ellison.

Goofs
Near the start of the film there are brief glimpses of various store departments. In the plumbing department, Winnie Lightner is in the background perched on a sink. That makes no sense, as it is only later on in the story that her character is reassigned from hardware to plumbing (One publicity still for the film is a close-up of Winnie on the sink, but there is no such scene in the movie. Probably a sequence involving Winnie in the plumbing department was deleted, but then Warners decided to use that opening shot figuring nobody would notice Winnie in the background).

Quotes
Georgine Hicks: [Wind blows away a pair of panties hang drying in the window] Oh! Oh! Oh-oh-oh!
Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis: What's the matter?
Georgine Hicks: Oh, there goes my last panties!
Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis: Well, now what are you gonna do?
Georgine Hicks: Keep off of step ladders.

Soundtracks
The Wedding March
(1843) (uncredited)
from "A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61"
Music by Felix Mendelssohn
Played briefly when the passport is shown