Dramatic School (film)

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Dramatic School
Directed by	Robert B. Sinclair
Produced by	Mervyn LeRoy
Written by	Ernest Vajda Mary C. McCall Jr.
Starring	Luise Rainer Paulette Goddard Alan Marshal Lana Turner
Music by	Franz Waxman
Cinematography	William H. Daniels
Editing by	Fredrick Y. Smith
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	December 9, 1938 July 10, 1939 October 22
Running time	80 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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Dramatic School is a 1938 MGM film directed by Robert B. Sinclair, and starring Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard, Lana Turner, and Gale Sondergaard. The film's screenplay, written by Ernest Vajda and Mary C. McCall was based on a play by Hans Székely and Zoltan Egyed. In this film, acting student Louise (Luise Rainer) attends the Paris School of Drama while working at a dreary factory job. Her fellow students begin to suspect that her stories of a luxurious life are just fantasies that she weaves to relieve her humdrum life.

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[edit] Cast

Luise Rainer as Louise Mauban
Paulette Goddard as Nana
Alan Marshal as Marquis Andre D'Abbencourt
Lana Turner as Mado
Genevieve Tobin as Gina Bertier
John Hubbard as Fleury (as Anthony Allan)
Henry Stephenson as Pasquel, Sr.
Gale Sondergaard as Madame Therese Charlot
Melville Cooper as Boulin
Erik Rhodes as Georges Mounier
Virginia Grey as Simone
Ann Rutherford as Yvonne
Hans Conried as Ramy
Rand Brooks as Pasquel Jr.
Jean Chatburn as Mimi

[edit] Trivia

MGM planned to make Dramatic School the debut film of Greer Garson under her MGM contract, but Garson injured her back, and Rainer was cast instead. Garson's first film for MGM was Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939).