Fifth Avenue Girl

Fifth Avenue Girl
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGregory La Cava
Written byAllan Scott
Gregory La Cava (uncredited)
Morrie Ryskind (uncredited story outline)[1]
Produced byGregory La Cava
StarringGinger Rogers
Walter Connolly
Verree Teasdale
James Ellison
CinematographyRobert De Grasse
Edited byWilliam Hamilton
Robert Wise[1]
Music byRobert Russell Bennett
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • September 22, 1939 (1939-09-22)
Running time
82-83 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$607,000[2]
Box office$1,370,000[2]

Fifth Avenue Girl, sometimes stylized as 5th Ave Girl, is a 1939 RKO Radio Pictures comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, and James Ellison. The screenplay was written by Allan Scott with uncredited contributions by La Cava and Morris Ryskind.

The film is about a rich industrialist with business problems who feels neglected by his family and hires a young woman to stir things up.

  1. ^ a b c Fifth Avenue Girl at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ a b Jewel, Richard (1994) 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. v.14, n.1, p.55