The Good Fairy

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Call Number: DVD Comedy Good
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1935.
Adapted by Jane Hinton from the play by Ferenc Molnár.
Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Beulah Bondi, Reginald Owen, Alan Hale, Cesar Romero.
Young Louisa Ginglebusher is recruited from a local orphanage to become an usherette at a movie theater. Encouraged by her kindly guardian to spread her wings, Louisa decides to lead the life of a fairy tale angel & in her quest to do good she tries to redirect money from a rich playboy to a struggling lawyer.
DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Charming submitted by willow on July 25, 2016, 12:45pm This is a very charming movie, from a truly different era.

Louisa Ginglebusher is an orphan who is old enough to leave the caring orphanage in which she has been raised to do a daily good deed; she is placed in a job as an "usherette" in a movie theater. She is so innocent she gets herself in a muddle involving a lecherous older man who wants to shower her with gifts. As she tries to extricate herself, and do good deeds, she gets herself in a muddle. The movie has lots of jokes and a wonderful performance as a repulsive, blustering "sugar daddy" type by Frank Morgan, famous for playing the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz.

It is also interesting to see tips from the past on how aggressive men could be handled and thwarted.