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Finishing School (1934) - (Movie Clip) Virginia's Going To Get Fried

Savvy “Pony” (Ginger Rogers) and novice pal Virginia (Frances Dee) from boarding school, having deployed a fake chaperone, arrive at their New York hotel for weekend partying, where waiter Mac (Bruce Cabot) soon becomes more relevant than their frat-boy dates, in Finishing School, 1934.

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