Film Friday: «Small Town Girl» (1936)
Since today marks the 79th anniversary of the release of one of my favorite films (classic or otherwise), this week on «Film Friday» I am telling you all about it. Theatrical release poster Directed by William A. Wellman, Small Town Girl (1936) tells the story of Kay Brannan (Janet Gaynor), a young grocery store worker so bored with her humdrum life in the small town of Carvel that she can barely tolerate her family and her prospective suitor, Elmer Clampett (James Stewart). When hundreds of football fans drive through Carvel on their way to the big annual game between Yale and Harvard, Kay lets herself be picked up by Robert «Bob» Dakin (Robert Taylor), a handsome, socially prominent surgeon from Boston. After a night of drunken partying, Bob insists they have a justice of peace marry them. Eager to escape from the tedium, Kay promptly agrees. When the story hits the newspapers the following morning, Mr. and Mrs. Dakin (Lewis Stone and Nella Walker) are shocked...