The Girl from Avenue A (1940)

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A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
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Aug 09, 1940
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A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.

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