A rich businessman wants to marry his secretary, but first he has to pass muster with her middle-class family.A rich businessman wants to marry his secretary, but first he has to pass muster with her middle-class family.A rich businessman wants to marry his secretary, but first he has to pass muster with her middle-class family.
- Stationmaster
- (uncredited)
- Kate
- (uncredited)
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
- Man With Radio
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Mr. Allen
- (uncredited)
- Typist Sitting Next to Helen
- (uncredited)
- Typist
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThis film was a success at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $240,000 ($4.1M in 2017) according to studio records.
- Quotes
Bill Harrison: Those industrial accident statistics you quoted last night, are they on the level?
Henry Thayer: Absolutely.
Bill Harrison: Oh, thank you, Ma.
Henry Thayer: Why you take hospitalization alone...
Ma: You let Bill eat his breakfast, Henry.
Bill Harrison: That's alright, Ma.
Henry Thayer: Just to show you the injustice: you take a millionaire's appendix. It goes wrong; what happens? They take him to the hospital, cut it out, charge him five, ten, fifteen thousand dollars for the job and he never even feels it.
Bill Harrison: Never feels it?
Henry Thayer: Paying the bill, I mean.
Bill Harrison: Oh.
Henry Thayer: Now then, you take your poor labourer's appendix that starts acting up. He goes to a clinic. The same surgeon operates on him but doesn't charge him a dime. So he doesn't feel it either, does he?
Bill Harrison: uh-uh.
Henry Thayer: But, get between them. Look at the other 80% of the population, me for instance, the great middle class. Let's assume that my appendix goes haywire; sooner or later, I've got to come across with five hundred smackers. And before I've paid it, I've gone without clothes and starved myself to death for a year. Is that fair?
Bill Harrison: No.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The John Garfield Story (2003)
- SoundtracksSailing, Sailing, Over the Bounding Main
(1880) (uncredited)
Written by Godfrey Marks
Sung a cappella by Sarah Padden twice
RUTH HUSSEY filled the 'Poor Girl' role in 'Rich Man, Poor Girl' (1938). ROBERT YOUNG, the boss and 'Rich Man' who falls in love, wants to marry her and bring her up to his speed. Which by the way IS her speed. The conflict, is that the POOR GIRLs' family is a bunch of boobs, save for the Mother who had married beneath her for love. The worst of the lot is a Cousin played by LEW AYRES. He feels the need to dispense 'lunatic left' philosophy whenever the opportunity presents itself in the guise of representing the great (and unspoken) middle class. Not holding onto a job during the Great Depression is supposed to be one of his endearing traits. Did not play well then and does not in the early 21st Century.
While HUSSEY and YOUNGs' character are sympathetic and the Mother SARAH PADDEN rings true the rest are just stereotypes. A young LANA TURNER of course is always worth looking at, but LEW AYRES character is not. He had been placed in this type of role before, if not him, HENRY FONDA or JAMES STEWART. They infest themselves with a-lot of Politically Correct social conscience (nonsense), but NO real solutions for any problems. Fortunetly common sense and true love win out in the end and everybody lives 'happyly ever after'. Wish all problems of the World could be solved as easily as in this movie.
- xerses13
- Mar 24, 2011
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- It's Now or Never
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- Budget
- $240,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1