These Glamour Girls 1939

        

This could have easily been a monogram programmer if not for the M.G.M. polish. Made for nothing and shot on the back lot with standing sets, this fast (running a mere 79 minutes) little gum drop was unexpected fun, mainly because of the young and willing cast that was assembled to tell the story of young and spoiled Manhattan debutants on a house party weekend spree at some elite college. Along for the ride was the very young Lana Turner still in her red headed mode but on her way up the sordid ladder to major blonde stardom  and scandal. She plays a ten cents a dance hall tootsie who’s sweep off her tired little feet one night by a drunk young man about town played by Lew Ayres who invites her to be his date for the upcoming weekend jamboree and then when Lana arrives all cheeky and pert gives her the “who are you” line. Lana never one to give up or in stays for the weekend anyway giving some life lessons to the nasty bitches among who are Anita Louise , Ann Rutherford and a few other snots. There is a nice jitterbug dance between Lana and a young Peter Hayes before he put the Lind in the middle but the real standout here, the one who draws our attention is Marsha Hunt ravishing as an over the hill 23 year old who still goes where the boys are and puts up with a lot of put downs from the debs, and who walks away with this little B, that’s how good she is. She doesn’t come away with a happy ending though, and Lew also gets his comeuppance. Ah Lana well Lana tells them all to go fuck themselves in so many words and the movie ends with some loose ends, in a rush to finish this thing, but I love these shinny little turds if only for those great clothes and hairdo’s. Directed by hack house director S. Sylvan Simon who died young but left us with “The Kid From Texas”, “Four Girls In White”, “Dancing Co-Ed” and “The Nurse From Brooklyn”.