Wise Girl (1937)

Director
Leigh Jason

Main cast
Miriam Hopkins; Ray Milland; Walter Abel; Henry Stephenson; Alec Craig

Genres
Comedy

Description
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.


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