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No smoking. No drinking. No lipstick.
Pretty Virginia Radcliffe (Frances Dee) earnestly accepts the strict rules enforced by exclusive Crockett Hall. Have a smoke, have a drink and have a wild weekend in New York, suggests her roommate Pony Ferris (Ginger Rogers), who knows the rules have nothing to do with the girls’ welfare and everything to do with the school’s reputation.
Adorably worldly, appealingly smart, third-billed Rogers steals the show in Finishing School, giving pretense a swift kick in the comedy keester as she mother-hens her classmates through a booze-and-bad-boy Manhattan fling.
The frank pre-Code storyline even allows innocent Virginia to wind up pregnant…and unpunished.
Original Release
05/04/1934
US Release
05/04/1934
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Frances Dee | Virginia Radcliff / Virginia Radcliffe |
Billie Burke | Mrs. Helen Crawford Radcliff / Helen Radcliffe |
Ginger Rogers | Cecilia 'Pony' Ferris / Cecilia "Pony" Ferris |
Bruce Cabot | Ralph McFarland - Interne / Ralph McFarland |
John Halliday | Mr. Frank S. Radcliff / Frank Radcliffe |
Beulah Bondi | Miss Van Alstyne |
Sara Haden | Miss Fisher |
Helen Freeman | Dr. Hewitt |
Marjorie Lytell | Ruth Wallace |
Adalyn Doyle | Madeleine 'Maggy' Kelly / Madeline Kelly |
Directors
George Nicholls Jr., Wanda Tuchock
Writers
Wanda Tuchock, Laird Doyle, David Hempstead, Louis Weitzenkorn, Katharine Clugston
Cast
Name | Character |
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Frances Dee | Virginia Radcliff / Virginia Radcliffe |
Billie Burke | Mrs. Helen Crawford Radcliff / Helen Radcliffe |
Ginger Rogers | Cecilia 'Pony' Ferris / Cecilia "Pony" Ferris |
Bruce Cabot | Ralph McFarland - Interne / Ralph McFarland |
John Halliday | Mr. Frank S. Radcliff / Frank Radcliffe |
Beulah Bondi | Miss Van Alstyne |
Sara Haden | Miss Fisher |
Helen Freeman | Dr. Hewitt |
Marjorie Lytell | Ruth Wallace |
Adalyn Doyle | Madeleine 'Maggy' Kelly / Madeline Kelly |
Anne Shirley | Billie |
Irene Franklin | Aunt Jessica - Pretender / Aunt Jessica |
Ann Cameron | Miss Schmidt |
Rose Coghlan | Miss Edith Garland / Edith Garland |
Caroline Rankin | Miss Weber |
Margaret Armstrong | Edith - the Maid |
Eddie Baker | Janitor |
Joan Barclay | Student |
Jane Darwell | Maude - Internes' Receptionist |
Arnold Gray | Desk Clerk |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Merian C. Cooper | Executive Producer |
Kenneth Macgowan | Producer |