Vivacious Lady

Vivacious Lady (1938)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 79% of users liked it
    (998 ratings)

James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were "an item" when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one another pours over onto the screen. Stewart plays Peter Morgan, a young botany professor who while on a visit to New York impulsively marries free-spirited nightclub… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
P. J. Wolfson, Ernest Pagano
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
May 13, 1938 Wide
RKO Radio Pictures Inc.

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Vivacious Lady is entertainment of the highest order and broadest appeal.

  • , Time Out

    Rogers is the accomplished centrepiece of the film, slightly atypical as the soft-focus romantic heroine, but with welcome eruptions of her tough and shrewd persona throughout.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    Vintage George Stevens comedy, dating from the brief period in which his deliberate style was a deepening virtue, stopping short of the ossification that cursed his later work.

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    A charming, fast-moving comedy.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Lighthearted screwball comedy that serves its two stars, Ginger Rogers and James Stewart, very well.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Red L


    I have troubles rating old movies very highly. I guess it is a product of their times, but the stories are quite simplistic. All the fuss because the younger Morgan can't come out and tell his parents that he is married.

  • Stella D


    rarely seen screwball comedy and the only screen pairing of rogers and stewart who were dating at the time. after a whirlwind romance, botany professor stewart tries to introduce his new bride, nightclub singer rogers, to the stuffy academic crowd, especially his father, university… More

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