The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Directed by Irving Reis
Comedy / Romance
aka: Bachelor Knight
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Film Review
Whilst not the most sophisticated of Cary Grant comedies, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is entertaining enough, in spite of the fact that it features Shirley Temple in the latter stages of her career as a slightly irksome teenager, rather than the beguiling little girl of previous years. Some enjoyable knockabout comedy compensates for the inconsequential plot, with Grant's attempts to fit in with the teenage set reaching a peak in an hilarious school sports day event sequence. Not particularly memorable but fun all the same.© James Travers 2009
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Film Synopsis
Judge Margaret Turner is alarmed when her precocious 17-year-old sister Susan takes a sudden liking to forty-something artist Dick Nugent. When Margaret and the assistant district attorney find Susan in Dick's apartment, Dick is arrested in the ensuing fracas. Margaret offers to have Dick released with no charges brought against him providing he goes on dating Susan. Her theory is that her sister will lose her infatuation for Dick once she realises what kind of man he really is. Is she right or will Susan cling to her knight in shining armour forever...?© James Travers
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Film Credits
- Director: Irving Reis
- Script: Sidney Sheldon (story)
- Cinematographer: Robert De Grasse, Nicholas Musuraca
- Music: Leigh Harline
- Cast: Cary Grant (Dick), Myrna Loy (Margaret), Shirley Temple (Susan), Rudy Vallee (Tommy), Ray Collins (Beemish), Harry Davenport (Thaddeus), Johnny Sands (Jerry), Don Beddoe (Joey), Lillian Randolph (Bessie), Veda Ann Borg (Agnes Prescott), Dan Tobin (Walters), Ransom M. Sherman (Judge Treadwell), William Bakewell (Winters), Irving Bacon (Melvin), Ian Bernard (Perry), Carol Hughes (Florence), William Hall (Anthony Herman), Gregory Gaye (Maitre d'Hotel), Bebe Allen (Girl), Bobby Barber (Birthday Cake Waiter)
- Country: USA
- Language: English / French
- Support: Black and White
- Runtime: 95 min
- Aka: Bachelor Knight
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