These Glamour Girls

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These Glamour Girls
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Theatrical poster
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Screenplay by Marion Parsonnet
Based onThese Glamour Girls
story in Cosmopolitan (magazine)
by Jane Hall
Produced by Sam Zimbalist
Starring Lew Ayres
Lana Turner
Tom Brown
Cinematography Alfred Gilks
Edited by Harold F. Kress
Music by David Snell
Edward Ward
Production
company
Distributed by Loew's Inc.
Release date
  • August 18, 1939 (1939-08-18)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$403,000 [1]
Box office$580,000 [1]

These Glamour Girls is a 1939 comedy-drama film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Lew Ayres and Lana Turner, with Tom Brown, Jane Bryan, Richard Carlson, Anita Louise and Ann Rutherford in featured roles.

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Plot summary

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.

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Reception

According to MGM records the film earned $420,000 in the US and Canada and $160,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $33,000. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.