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Wise Girl

ComedyFilm & TelevisionMiriam Hopkins
  • 1937

This scene sets this lively ’30s comedy in motion. Wealthy Miriam Hopkins discovers her niece and nephew have spurned their inheritance and run off to a bohemian lifestyle in Greenwich Village. As she’s promising her father to go and rescue them, he’s concerned she won’t be able to survive the Village. As is typical in these early days, Vassar is a punchline.