Primrose Path
The Play That Shocked New York And Rocked Broadway With Laughter!
Directed by Gregory La Cava
Produced by RKO Radio Pictures
A melodramatic 1940s romance about a woman from poverty and moral compromise who must reconcile her hidden past with her new marriage and respectability.
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
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