The Petty Girl
The Petty Girl (1950), known in the UK as Girl of the Year, is a musical romantic comedy Technicolor film starring Robert Cummings and Joan Caulfield. Cummings portrays painter George Petty who falls for Victoria Braymore (Caulfield), the youngest professor at Braymore College who eventually becomes "The Petty Girl".
Plot
In New York City, George Petty (Robert Cummings) tries to convince car manufacturer B. J. Manton to use pretty women to help advertise his dreary new car model. He is not succeeding when Manton's daughter, the often-married Mrs. Connie Manton Dezlow (Audrey Long), interrupts the business meeting, takes a liking to the handsome young artist, and makes herself his patron. Soon, she has furnished him with a lavish apartment, complete with a butler named Beardsley (Melville Cooper). She also talks him into abandoning his cheesecake paintings in favor of more respectable portraits.
More details
| author | Mary McCarthy |
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| director | Henry Levin |
| editor | Al Clark |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | arrest art museum bathing suit burlesque chaperone cheesecake cumming front page george petty make up meet musical number new car new york city paint pin-up girl police raid shelter tippi hedren |
| musicBy | George Duning |
| producer | Nat Perrin |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |
| theme | musical comedy romantic comedy romantic musical |