The Girl from 10th Avenue

The Girl from 10th AvenueA decent, everyday person facing economic hard times gives the idle rich their comeuppance: it's a storyline staple of Depression era comedy romances, one that served William Powell in My Man Godfrey, Ginger Rogers in 5th Ave. Girl and, moving 5 blocks west, Bette Davis in The Girl from 10th Avenue. Davis plays working girl Miriam Brady, who rescues heartbroken attorney and society man Geoffrey Sherwood (Ian Hunter) from his public bout of blues in a

Levin also finds himself uncontrollably drawn to his employer's beautiful wife (Ornella Muti--Flash Gordon)

a chi-chi spot where the owner (Pat O'Brien) and the bandleader (screen-debuting John Payne) spar over everything from chewing gum to the club's pretty flack (Margaret Lindsay)

Separated from her Cro-Magnon people by a calamitous earthquake

Now what is a handsome

The ironbellies of the 3rd Armored Division have at last reached the enemy's homeland

And Oscar® winner* Geraldine Page is Evie

Critic Bosley Crowther of The New York Times had high praise for Bogie's special ability to make villainous Duke likable and also extolled the film's "sharply written script and good cast

Jean Arthur teams with William Powell in a playful murder mystery that proves Myrna Loy isn't the only beautiful

Gilbert Roland and teen heartthrob Frankie Avalon round out the top-billed cast

He must save it from being mistreated

with fifteen men acting as guides

he outguns three notorious criminal brothers