The Shopworn Angel is a 1938 American drama film directed by H.C. Potter. The MGM release featured the second screen pairing of Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart following their successful teaming in the Universal Pictures production Next Time We Love two years earlier. The screenplay by Waldo Salt is the third feature film adaptation of a Dana Burnet short story entitled Pettigrew's Girl that originally was published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1918. The first was a silent film released in 1919, the second a 1928 partial sound remake starring Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, and Paul Lukas.... After the United States enters World War I in 1917, the limousine carrying Daisy Heath, a sophisticated Broadway musical theatre star, knocks down Bill Pettigrew, a naive young soldier from Texas. A policeman orders the chauffeur to take Bill back to camp. During the ride, he becomes slightly acquainted with the cynical, but not cold-hearted Daisy. Upon their arrive at the army camp, Bill lets his buddies assume that Daisy is the date he had lied about. In fact, he has no one. When they find out the truth, they decide to get even.
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| Release date: | July 15, 1938 |
| Directed by: | H. C. Potter |
| Runtime: | 85 Minutes |
| Producer: | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Music by: | Edward Ward |
| Cinematography: | Joseph Ruttenberg, William H. Daniels |