January 26 movie: The Girl from 10th Avenue. Sweet romance starring Bette Davis and Ian Hunter. He's a bitter society man set on drinking himself to death after being tossed over by his fiance. She's a working class girl who cleans him up, takes him in and takes care of him, no strings attached. It's kind of like Leaving Las Vegas without the crushing hopelessness.
I particularly liked the character of Davis' landlady: a former nightclub singer who was involved with a society man in her day, and was paid off by the gentleman's father. She used the money to buy her building and ends up a comfortable older lady, offering Davis advice on how to deal with being the outsider in Hunter's social circle. Also cracking jokes about how the old man would spin in his grave if he knew how valuable her property had become.
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