Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Director
Wesley Ruggles

Main cast
Lana Turner; Robert Young; Walter Brennan; Dame May Whitty; Eugene Pallette

Genres
Comedy, Romance

Description
This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new drugstore manager Bob Stuart (Robert Young), Peggy, convinced that there's no future for her in her hometown, fakes her suicide and heads for the big city. After a series of dizzying comic complications, she successfully poses as the long-lost daughter of millionaire Cornelius Burden (Walter Brennan). Meanwhile, poor Bob, held responsible for Peggy's "death," comes to town determined to clear his name by exposing Peggy as an impostor.


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