Small Town Girl
Kay lives in a small rural time and thinks that her life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night she meets young, handsome, rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk, then pr…
Small Town Girl
Kay lives in a small rural time and thinks that her life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night she meets young, handsome, rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk, then proceeds to take her out for a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when he decides--while drunk--that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The next morning, Bob, once he sobers up, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for six months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart. —Anonymous Kay Brannan, who works in her family's grocery store, hates the monotony, routine, and tedium of living in small-town Carvel, especially as everyone she knows does and says the same thing over and over, including city works employee Elmer Clampett, to whom she seems destined to be married. The partying people passing through town for the Yale-Harvard football game only shows her what a fun-filled life can look like. So when one of the young men passing through sweeps her along, she quietly but happily gets caught in his broom hairs. By the end of the alcohol-filled evening when he, more than just a little tipsy, suggests they get married by a J.P. in a neighboring town, she, with a clear mind and just for a chance to escape the tedium of Carvel, agrees. In the sober (for him) and bright light (for her) of the next day, they both regret the move; he sees her as a small-town yokel, and his superior attitudes maddens her. It is only then that she gets a fuller picture of who he really is: Boston-based up-and-coming surgeon Dr. Bob Dakin who comes from a wealthy family; only his irresponsible, partying ways are holding him back professionally. But most importantly, she learns that he is already engaged to socialite Priscilla Hyde; they'd had a minor row just before he met Kay. The two women couldn't be more different--that was the exact reason that he had swept Kay along for the day. Although Bob and Kay's first inclination is to get an annulment, Bob's parents are able to convince him, and he is able to convince her, that the scandal of an annulment would ruin his career, and that a better option is to stay married for six months in all aspects except in the bedroom, then get a divorce; only the four of them plus Priscilla will know about their marriage being a scam. In the ups and downs of pretending to be in love over the course of those six months, they may find that they truly have fallen in love if they can open their eyes to the fact, especially against the pressure of Priscilla who ultimately sees Bob and her as a match made in their upper-class social-circle heaven. —Huggo
Small Town Girl
Comedy,Romance
Film Details
Kay lives in a small rural time and thinks that her life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night she meets young, handsome, rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk, then proceeds to take her out for a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when he decides--while drunk--that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting.
The next morning, Bob, once he sobers up, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for six months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
—Anonymous Kay Brannan, who works in her family's grocery store, hates the monotony, routine, and tedium of living in small-town Carvel, especially as everyone she knows does and says the same thing over and over, including city works employee Elmer Clampett, to whom she seems destined to be married. The partying people passing through town for the Yale-Harvard football game only shows her what a fun-filled life can look like. So when one of the young men passing through sweeps her along, she quietly but happily gets caught in his broom hairs.
By the end of the alcohol-filled evening when he, more than just a little tipsy, suggests they get married by a J.P. in a neighboring town, she, with a clear mind and just for a chance to escape the tedium of Carvel, agrees. In the sober (for him) and bright light (for her) of the next day, they both regret the move; he sees her as a small-town yokel, and his superior attitudes maddens her.
It is only then that she gets a fuller picture of who he really is: Boston-based up-and-coming surgeon Dr. Bob Dakin who comes from a wealthy family; only his irresponsible, partying ways are holding him back professionally. But most importantly, she learns that he is already engaged to socialite Priscilla Hyde; they'd had a minor row just before he met Kay.
The two women couldn't be more different--that was the exact reason that he had swept Kay along for the day. Although Bob and Kay's first inclination is to get an annulment, Bob's parents are able to convince him, and he is able to convince her, that the scandal of an annulment would ruin his career, and that a better option is to stay married for six months in all aspects except in the bedroom, then get a divorce; only the four of them plus Priscilla will know about their marriage being a scam. In the ups and downs of pretending to be in love over the course of those six months, they may find that they truly have fallen in love if they can open their eyes to the fact, especially against the pressure of Priscilla who ultimately sees Bob and her as a match made in their upper-class social-circle heaven.
—Huggo.