Vivacious Lady (DVD)

Ginger Rogers requested and received the perfect man for the job when she was paired with James Stewart for this riotous romance between a sizzling nightclub singer and a buttoned-down botany professor. Sent into town to retrieve an errant sib (James Ellison), Prof. Peter Morgan (Stewart) meets and marries show-stopping chanteuse Francey (Rogers) over the course of a single evening. But the stars start crossing against the newlyweds when they travel to Morgan's moss-backed college town to break the news to Morgan's Mater and Pater (Beulah Bondi and Charles Coburn) and two soon finds themselves conducting a marriage incognito style. With Francey stuck posing as his brother's girl, a Fiancé left behind, a prim and proper college dean father and a mother with a heart condition arrayed against them, their marriage might be sunk before they can even announce it! Director George Steven's first outing as a producer is a delight.

Starring: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn, Phyllis Kennedy, Willie Best, Hattie McDaniel, Dorothy Moore, Frank M. Thomas, Frances Mercer, Franklin Pangborn, Grady Sutton, Jack Carson, Alec Craig, Spencer Charters, Maude Eburne, Bud Flanagan, William Brisbane, Lloyd Ingraham

Director: George Stevens

Rating: NR