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The Harvey Girls were the brain-child of Fred Harvey, an entrepreneurial spirit who envisioned a path of gentility, courtesy, and fine dining along railroads of the west. At a time when women had few options other than teacher or wife and little prospect of achieving financial independence or homes of their own, the Fred Harvey Company offered young women an opportunity to work as waitresses ...
Harvey Girl (uncredited) Marcia Van Dyke. Dancer (uncredited) Directed By: George Sidney. Written By: Samson Raphaelson (Screenplay), Samuel Hopkins Adams (Novel), + 7 more. mbody says... 7 years ago. In this film Judy Garland plays a bit of a mail order bride. After exchanging romantic letters with a man she moves out to the wild west to marry ...
The Harvey Girls. It's a high-spirited Oscar-nominated musical clash between respectable waitress Judy Garland and wicked dance-hall queen Angela Lansbury when a restaurant chain opens up along railroad lines in the wild west of 1880's New Mexico. Get on board for the Oscar-winning song, "On the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe."
Screenplay. William Rankin. Story. Eleanore Griffin. Story. Kay Van Riper. Writer. On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
23. Okt. 2014 · Duration: 57 minutes. Availability: Worldwide. The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound is a new documentary film that tells the story of how over 100,000 railroad station waitresses opened up the doors of the American West and the workplace to women and changed history. It was a finalist for a James Beard Award, has been broadcast on over a dozen ...
The Harvey Girls ist ein US-amerikanischer Musikfilm von Regisseur George Sidney aus dem Jahr 1946. Der Film basiert auf den gleichnamigen Roman von Samuel Hopkins Adams.
The Harvey Girls were an important part of the history of the western expansion remembered today in film and by women’s history enthusiasts excited to uncover the often overlooked role that women played in Frontier America. Their story is a fun mix of American ingenuity, the pioneer spirit, and the use of women’s traditional yet expanding ...
