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Variety, May 29, 1935

The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)

Warner Bros. Production and release stars Bette Davis; features Ian Hunter, Colin Clive, Alison Salpworth. Directed by Alfred E. Green. From the play by Hubert Henry Davies; adaptation, Charles Kenyon; camera, James Van Trees At Capital, N.Y. week May 32, ’35. Running time, 70 mins.

Miriam Brady	Bette Davis
Geoffrey Sherwood	Ian Hunter
Marland	Colin Clive
Mrs. Martin	Alison Skipworth
Hugh Brown	John Eldredge
Tony Hewlett	Philip Reed
Valentine	Katherine Alexander
Miss Mansfield	Helen Jerome Eddy
Clerk	Gordon Elliot

For Bette Davis this is her first starring venture, and the performance she gives should pull the picture through to good returns. In the lesser names where they’re less inclined to be critical about the story and wholesale resort to stale dramatic stratagems, the outlook for "The Girl from 10^th Avenue" is particularly strong.

Film allows the star to go high, wide and handsome on the emotions. She takes ‘em all in a stride that saves the yarn from dying by its own befuddlement, and that also should up her a few notches as a box office bet.

"Girl from 10^th Avenue" is fashioned from a pattern whose every turn and twist the dullest fan can easily anticipate. A weak sister of the social set is tossed over by his Park Avenue girl friend for a guy with a better social position and more coin. The disappointed swain tries to boil his disappointment in alcohol and the girl from 10^th avenue who takes him in hand in an effort to straighten out his teary recklessness, gets him on the rebound. While both are stewed a justice of the peace, roused out of his sleep at 4 a.m., turns the trick. In time the Park Avenue Jane realizes her mistake and goes on the make for the old heart ailment.

Complications follow, with a verbal clash between the two dames ad a newspaper account of the incident precipitating a break between the 10^th avenue girl and her society spouse. But it doesn’t take the latter long to realize where his true love really lies and back he goes tow hat had been his downtown hideaway with the 10^th avenue bride.

Narrative is chockfull of implausible sequences and the plot often gets itself into blind alleys. But deft direction plus smooth trouping by Miss Davis make these defects not too noticeable for the average fan. Although picture has all the vestiges of a one-role work, fetching performances are turned in by Alison Skipworth, as a landlady who once pranced the Florodora Sextet, and by Colin Clive as the Park avenue girls’ husband. In the role of the latter’s wife, Katherine Alexander does aptly by the lines and situations assigned her, while Ian Hunter, as the scion who marries into 10^th avenue, contributes a characterization that lacks both solidness and conviction. But the fault is more the script’s than his.

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