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Finishing School for Women - Etiquette, Social Skills & Confidence Training | Perfect for Professional Development, Networking & Social Events
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Finishing School for Women - Etiquette, Social Skills & Confidence Training | Perfect for Professional Development, Networking & Social Events
Finishing School for Women - Etiquette, Social Skills & Confidence Training | Perfect for Professional Development, Networking & Social Events
Finishing School for Women - Etiquette, Social Skills & Confidence Training | Perfect for Professional Development, Networking & Social Events
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No smoking. No drinking. No lipstick. Pretty Virginia Radcliffe (Frances Dee) earnestly accepts the strict rules enforced by exclusive Crockett Hall. Have a smoke, have a drink and have a wild weekend in New York, suggests her roommate Pony Ferris (Ginger Rogers), who knows the rules have nothing to do with the girls' welfare and everything to do with the school's reputation. Adorably worldly, appealingly smart, third-billed Rogers steals the show in Finishing School, giving pretense a swift kick in the comedy keester as she mother-hens her classmates through a booze-and-bad-boy Manhattan fling. The frank pre-Code storyline even allows innocent Virginia to wind up pregnant and unpunished.
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Not half as racy as the blurb would have you believe. Ginger Rogers does not 'mother hen' her classmate through a wild weekend in New York. They sneak away from their chaperone and Virginia does admit that 'she's always wanted to get a little tight (drunk).' Her date tries to get a little fresh and she is saved by a nice waiter (in med school, therefore not entirely socially unacceptable). As the movie progresses Virginia and the intern (oops, forgot his name!) fall in love. Their relationship is not allowed by the school, who want all the students to marry up, so Virginia is forbidden to see him.At Christmas Virginia is alone at the school and considers having a drink to cheer herself up but realised how pathetic it would be. She looks at the presents from her parents, a cheque and a fur coat with the receipt enclosed, not even a card from her mother. She despairs... then there is a tap at the window- her boyfriend. They sneak away to the boat house and he gives her a set of handkerchiefs he had embroidered with her initial. Awww! And the camera pans away...After this all his calls are intercepted, his letters thrown away, her letters likewise. She becomes mysteriously unwell, not herself and the dean recommends that she see the school doctor. Virginia becomes hysterical, crying that she cannot see the doctor, simply cannot! Ginger Rogers realises the problem and calls the intern to come and face his responsibilities immediately. She escapes to the balcony and thinks about throwing herself off but she sees the intern's car arriving. She rushes down to meet him and he mans up very nicely. As they leave (presumably to get a special licence) her father offers him a cigar (like the kind given to new fathers at the birth of their child).So, the blurb says that Virginia ends up pregnant and unpunished. Sorry, but the 1930's didn't swing that way. If she'd been found out Virginia would never have been welcome in another polite family's house ever again. Her child would not be welcome. Her grandchild would still feel bitter about the way she was treated. That's why it was so important for her to have her boyfriend come riding to the rescue at the end.The storyline was frank compared to late movies and it was banned. Virginia gets drunk, considers a little light secret drinking to console herself. She sleeps with her boyfriend but that part is portrayed as a nice girl who succumbs to love when she feels lonely. The viewer feels sorry for her, these days, but in the forties the movie would have been too shocking to be shown to general audiences.These days, it's a great movie.

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