Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

vert001 In 5TH AVENUE GIRL, director Gregory La Cava seems to have anticipated Howard Hawks's HIS GIRL Friday by giving us a loose remake of MY MAN GODFREY with a key sex role reversal. A down-on-her-luck woman (Ginger Rogers) is thrust into the bosom of a bizarre wealthy family and goes a long way towards straightening them out. 5TH AVENUE GIRL presents a slightly more serious treatment, its family less eccentric and rather more mean than that of GODFREY, and the movie suffers for the changes. It was the second of three straight films that La Cava made with Ginger Rogers, and by my lights is easily the least of the three.On the plus side, the real star of the show is the fine character actor Walter Connolly, getting a rare opportunity to front a major film near the end of his life. As the put-upon manufacturer emotionally deserted by his ungrateful family, he successfully invokes the audience's sympathy and shares a pleasant chemistry with Rogers, who is in full- scale deadpan mode (to an excessive degree in my opinion). The rest of the cast is adequate with the exception of Tim Holt, a dead weight in pretty much everything in which I've seen him with the notable exception of THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRES. A major problem for 5TH AVENUE GIRL is the complete lack of development of its love interest subplot. Indeed, with the exception of Connolly's industrialist, pretty much everything in 5TH AVENUE GIRL remains undeveloped, including the character of the 5th Avenue Girl herself, which remains vague and sketchy throughout (this young lady is remarkably nonchalant about being down to her last $5. Why?). Indeed, we get far more details about the communist chauffeur and the idiot rich girl than we ever get about Rogers' 'Miss Grey'.The whole film leaves me with a shrug of the shoulders. It's overtly sociological but never goes beyond 'the rich are people, too'. It's a comedy but is never really very funny. It's not exactly bad, but not really good, either. I guess I'm a lotta help, aren't I?

bkoganbing Fifth Avenue Girl is yet another film about a harried father beset with business woes and a spoiled family just like Gregory LaCava's other classic film, My Man Godfrey. And the star of yet another LaCava classic Stage Door, Ginger Rogers takes the lead here as a working class girl who gets hired by Fifth Avenue millionaire Walter Connolly to pose as his mistress to shake up his complacent and stupid family. Kind of like asking Rogers to pose as his Marion Davies to his William Randolph Hearst.Ginger has her hands full with wife Verree Teasdale who is playing a part much like Alice Brady in My Man Godfrey. Imagine Brady in that film confronted with Eugene Palette stepping out and you have some idea of her performance. Connolly and Teasdale have children Tim Holt who before he went full time into westerns played a lot of callow youths like he is here. He's big time into polo and not really into helping dad at the office. As for daughter Kathryn Adams, she's all about her debut as a débutante, she kind of likes the family chauffeur James Ellison, but he's spouting all kinds of Marxist dogma without really understanding it. And there's that class distinction.Fifth Avenue though along the same lines as My Man Godfrey falls a bit flat in the execution. Tim Holt does too good a job as the snobbish upper class youth, so much so you can't see Rogers giving him any kind of consideration. In fact there is a brief scene where Holt gets into it with a sailor played by Jack Carson and it ends disappointingly because you so wanted to see Carson flatten him. Ellison too turns out to be more of a phony than you would like.Connolly and Rogers however work very well together, their scenes are the highlight of Fifth Avenue Girl. And Franklin Pangborn as the butler is restrained a bit, but still very good. Ginger Rogers's legion of fans should like the film, but it's far from her best.

MartinHafer It's obvious when you watch this film that it was strongly inspired by the wonderful comedy "My Man Godfrey", though it never comes close to the quality or zaniness of this earlier hit. This isn't to say I didn't like "5th Avenue Girl"--it just isn't in the same league as "Godfrey".The film begins with a rich industrialist (Walter Connelly) meeting Ginger Rogers on a park bench. It's his birthday, yet no one in his family cares or took notice. On a lark, he invites this total stranger to go out partying with him. At first, she's hesitant. However, he can afford it and she's not used to this sort of life, so she agrees.The next day, Connelly awakens with little recollection of all the details of the night before, as he had gotten quite drunk. He's surprised, however, when Rogers turns up in his home--it seems he invited her to stay in the guest room. Now you'd think this would cause a huge problem with Connelly's wife...a strange woman in the house. However, that's the crux of the problem--his family doesn't really care. So, on a lark, he decides to take this to the next step--and pay Rogers to stay and pretend to be his mistress--though there is absolutely nothing between them. He just wants to make his no-good family take notice! As for Connelly and Rogers, they are both excellent in this film. I especially love Connelly, as he was a delightful supporting actor and here he gets a chance to play the leading man--with nice results. However, after these two, the film's cast and writing really falls short. In "Godfrey", the family was kooky--filled with eccentrics and oddballs. However, here in "5th Avenue Girl", the family just seems selfish and a bit despicable--a major problem for the film. The wife and son were just selfish jerks, while the daughter, to put it bluntly, is an annoying idiot--who's in love with a really, really annoying young communist. As a result, the film rests solely on Rogers and Connelly--with no real support from anyone. If this had been worked out, the film would have been more than a pleasant comedy--it could have been something exceptional. Still, it is charming and fun to watch--plus I'd watch Connelly in anything--he's that good.By the way, listen up for a great final line by Ginger--it's a doozy.

mukava991 The most notable features of this lame comedy-drama are a listless performance from Ginger Rogers, who behaves as if she had been on tranquilizers during production, and frequent Marxist-flavored rants delivered by James Ellison as a disgruntled chauffeur. It's a low-key variation on two much better films, My Man Godfrey and Holiday: dysfunctional super rich brought down to earth by an encounter with a poor person. It's interesting also to see the terminally haughty Verree Teasdale matched with Walter Connolly playing characters similar to the ones they played in 1937's First Lady. Teasdale deserved better scripts. She was a very amusing caricature of a high society lady with a commanding, plush, deep voice. Connolly as usual plays a tycoon whose hard-nosed business sense is tempered by a sort of warmhearted common sense.