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VIVACIOUS LADY
U.S., 1938
Directed by George Stevens
With Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn
Approx. 90 min. 35mm.
“A light-hearted fable in which nightclub dancer Rogers meets, falls for, and marries Professor James Stewart. Much humor is derived from the couple's inability to consummate their wedding owing to family and social pressures, but there are also traces of a critique of the institution of marriage itself: it is always the women who have to adapt and make sacrifices for the sake of monogamy. Rogers is the accomplished centerpiece of the film, slightly atypical as the soft-focus romantic heroine, but with welcome eruptions of her tough and shrewd persona throughout.” – Time Out
Reviews
“VIVACIOUS LADY is entertainment of the highest order and broadest appeal.”
– Variety
“She’s capable, forthright, unpretentious — in other words, a typical Rogers heroine..”
– The New York Times