Girls' School is a 1938

1938 in film

The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of "Dorothy" in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture. Ray Bolger is cast as the "Tinman" and Buddy Ebsen is cast as the "Scarecrow". At Bolger's insistence,...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 starring Anne Shirley. The film was directed by John Brahm

John Brahm

John Brahm was a film and television director possibly best known today for directing a dozen of the original Twilight Zone episodes including the now classic "Time Enough at Last"...

 and based upon a Tess Slesinger

Tess Slesinger

Tess Slesinger was a Jewish-American writer and screenwriter and is credited as being a charter member of the New York intellectual scene....

 story.

Plot

The film revolves around wealthy high school teenagers who are send to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. One of the girls causes a scandal when she stays out all night, then announces on planning to elope with a boy. She gets in trouble when the faculty finds out through a monitor's report from a reluctant poor girl attending on scholarship.

Cast

• Anne Shirley - Natalie Freeman
• Nan Grey
  Nan Grey
  Nan Grey was an American film actress. She was born Eschal Loleet Grey Miller on July 25, 1918 in Houston, Texas.-Career:...
  
   - Linda Simpson
• Ralph Bellamy
  Ralph Bellamy
  Ralph Bellamy was an American actor whose career spanned sixty-two years.-Early life:He was born Ralph Rexford Bellamy in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise , a native of Canada, and Charles Rexford Bellamy. He ran away from home when he was fifteen and managed to get into a road show...
  
   - Michael Hendragin
• Dorothy Moore - Betty Fleet
• Gloria Holden
  Gloria Holden
  -Early life:Gloria Holden came to America as a child. She attended school in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and later studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.-Theater:...
  
   - Miss Laurel
• Marjorie Main
  Marjorie Main
  Marjorie Main was an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies.-Early life and career:...
  
   - Miss Honore Armstrong
• Cecil Cunningham
  Cecil Cunningham
  Cecil Cunningham was an American film and stage actress. She appeared in more than 80 movies between 1929 and 1946...
  
   - Miss Brewster, Dean of Students
• Margaret Tallichet - Gwennie
• Peggy Moran
  Peggy Moran
  Peggy Moran was an American film actress who appeared in films between 1938 and 1943.-Life and career:...
  
  - Myra