Director: ALFRED E. GREEN. Screenplay: Charles Kenyon. Based on the play Outcast by Hubert Henry Davies. Photography: James Van Trees. Film editor: Owen Marks. Art director: John Hughes. Costumes designed by Orry-Kelly. Music composed by Heinz Roemheld. Music director: Leo F. Forbstein. Associate producers: Robert Lord, Henry Blanke.
Copyright 31 May 1935 by First National Pictures, Inc. A Warner Bros-First National picture. New York opening at the Capitol: 26 May 1935. Australian release: 7 August 1935. 69 minutes.
U.K. release title: MEN ON HER MIND.
SYNOPSIS: A lawyer goes on the bender when his fiancée throws him over to marry another man.
NOTES: Starring Elsie Ferguson and Charles Cherry, the stage play opened on Broadway at the Lyceum, 2 November 1914. It was directed by author Hubert Henry Davies and, despite bad reviews, ran a successful 168 performances.
The movie was partially remade in 1937 (again with Bette Davis and Ian Hunter) as "That Certain Woman".
COMMENT: What's a "B" movie? A theater manager once answered that question very succinctly: "Any movie that runs less than 80 minutes." Not only does "The Girl from 10th Avenue" qualify on that score, it also corresponds with my own definition, namely it's a small-budget picture of limited appeal to general audiences. Cinema patrons would tolerate it as a support but never as a main feature.
Aside from the Waldorf scene, production values have little to offer. Green's direction is unimaginatively stolid.
True, Miss Davis does her histrionic best to spice up the proceedings, but her over-the-top acting, coupled with her unattractive clothes and make-up, destroys what little credence the script occasionally manages to build up.
Fortunately, the support cast, with the exception of Ian Hunter (who starts promisingly but goes down-hill from there), comes to the rescue. Colin Clive and Katherine Alexander are especially convincing.
Copyright 31 May 1935 by First National Pictures, Inc. A Warner Bros-First National picture. New York opening at the Capitol: 26 May 1935. Australian release: 7 August 1935. 69 minutes.
U.K. release title: MEN ON HER MIND.
SYNOPSIS: A lawyer goes on the bender when his fiancée throws him over to marry another man.
NOTES: Starring Elsie Ferguson and Charles Cherry, the stage play opened on Broadway at the Lyceum, 2 November 1914. It was directed by author Hubert Henry Davies and, despite bad reviews, ran a successful 168 performances.
The movie was partially remade in 1937 (again with Bette Davis and Ian Hunter) as "That Certain Woman".
COMMENT: What's a "B" movie? A theater manager once answered that question very succinctly: "Any movie that runs less than 80 minutes." Not only does "The Girl from 10th Avenue" qualify on that score, it also corresponds with my own definition, namely it's a small-budget picture of limited appeal to general audiences. Cinema patrons would tolerate it as a support but never as a main feature.
Aside from the Waldorf scene, production values have little to offer. Green's direction is unimaginatively stolid.
True, Miss Davis does her histrionic best to spice up the proceedings, but her over-the-top acting, coupled with her unattractive clothes and make-up, destroys what little credence the script occasionally manages to build up.
Fortunately, the support cast, with the exception of Ian Hunter (who starts promisingly but goes down-hill from there), comes to the rescue. Colin Clive and Katherine Alexander are especially convincing.