One of my all-time favorite movies, “Fifth Avenue Girl” (1939), is on Criterion Channel. It is unfortunate that they’ve placed it in their “Screwball Comedies” collection—as a significant reason this Gregory LaCava picture has been long undervalued is that viewers, with help from RKO marketing, put it in that box where it does not belong. Despite some comedic elements, it should not be classified as a comedy, much less screwball

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Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly and director Gregory LaCava get acquainted with the pigeons being used for a sequence in “Fifth Avenue Girl” (RKO, 1939). Photo by John Miehle.

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Ginger Rogers for “Fifth Avenue Girl” (RKO, 1939). Photo by John Miehle.

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