The Girl from Georgia

Original title: Her Secret

1933
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1h 13m

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4.3/10

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William Collier Jr. and Sari Maritza in The Girl from Georgia (1933)

Comedy Drama Romance

Johnny, the son of a rich man, is an idling, good-for-nothing loafer who leads a wild, hectic life, flunks out of college, and is disinherited and made to leave home by his father, who has g... Read allJohnny, the son of a rich man, is an idling, good-for-nothing loafer who leads a wild, hectic life, flunks out of college, and is disinherited and made to leave home by his father, who has given up on him in despair. Johnny opens a gas-station in Arizona, where "Waffles," a girl ... Read allJohnny, the son of a rich man, is an idling, good-for-nothing loafer who leads a wild, hectic life, flunks out of college, and is disinherited and made to leave home by his father, who has given up on him in despair. Johnny opens a gas-station in Arizona, where "Waffles," a girl from Georgia, takes him in hand and employs her own methods of reformation with astonishin... Read all

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Sari Maritza

Waffles

William Collier Jr.

Johnny Norton
(as Buster Collier)

Alan Mowbray

Nils Norton

Ivan F. Simpson

Lathrop
(as Ivan Simpson)

Monaei Lindley

Ermine, Johnny's Girlfriend

Rex Armond

Tex, Waffles' Friend

Jack Dewees

Kenneth
(as Jack De Wees)

Barbara Luddy

Leila McIntyre

Dean of Women
(as Lela McIntyre)

John Hyams

Dean of Men
(as Johnny Hyams)

Grace Valentine

Mary

Mary Lee Manning

College Student

Bert James

College Boy

Barry Thompson

College Bad Boy

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Trivia
Final film of Grace Valentine.

Alternate versions
The original film was banned in many locations on public morality grounds, and was re-released under the new title The Girl from Georgia (1936), after a few scenes were deleted.

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6/10

A Cornpone Savior

William Collier Jr. Gets kicked out of another college. Father Alan Mowbray has a wingding and kicks him out of home and tells him to go to work, so he opens a club close to college. While it's popular with the students, dean John Hyams declares it off limits to the student body. Meanwhile, Georgia girl Sarai Maritza has gone to work for him, and on him.

It's a nice little story, and decently performed, if you ignore the ridiculously cornpone accent Miss Maritza assumes. What was she, promoted by Paramount as an exotic European, doing in this sort of role? Well, while her mother was Viennese, her father was a British army officer, and she got an international education; Paramount thought she could become the next Garbo or Dietrich. She didn't. She retired soon after her first marriage in 1936, admitting to a reporter that she couldn't act. She died in 1987, aged 77.