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21 February 1941 (USA) morePlot:
A young girl finds herself attracted to one of her father's business partners. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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ALL that adulthood entails! moreCast
(Credited cast)| Deanna Durbin | ... | Jane 'Pinky' Dana | |
| Franchot Tone | ... | Richard Calvert | |
| Walter Brennan | ... | Hector Titus | |
| Robert Stack | ... | Don Webb | |
| Robert Benchley | ... | Prof. Oliver Wendel Holmes Dana | |
| Helen Broderick | ... | Cora Foster | |
| Ann Gillis | ... | Nancy Dana | |
| Anne Gwynne | ... | Sylvia Dana | |
| Elisabeth Risdon | ... | Martha Peasley | |
| Nana Bryant | ... | Mary Peasley | |
| Georgie Billings | ... | Pinky Greene (as George Billings) | |
| Tommy Kelly | ... | Ken Atkins | |
| Marcia Mae Jones | ... | Girl |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Fun Stuff
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In the British version of this film, Deanna Durbin's finale was the patriotic favorite, "There'll Always Be an England" (music by Ross Parker and Harry Parr Davies, lyrics by Hugh Charles). Miss Durbin's "Thank You America" (music and lyrics by Walter Jurmann and Bernie Grossman), a song which didn't become popular despite Deanna's commercial single on Decca, closed the U.S. print. Both endings are included on the VHS release of the movie from Universal Studios. moreSoundtrack:
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What is not to like about 'Nice Girl?'? It needs hardly be among the very best of Deanna Durbin's films to still warrant at least a viewing. And it certainly does.
Robert Benchley is wonderful as the father raising three daughters with the help of his housekeeper in a small American town. Durbin plays the middle daughter, Dana, and she has her sights set on sophistication, however improbable that prospect seems. Her boyfriend, hunky, blond Robert Stack, is often filmed, bless him, in a skimpy shoulder-less undershirt whilst busying himself under the hood of the beloved car that he seems to value more than Durbin herself. When a mature man of the world, the charming Franchot Tone, shows up to do business with Dad Benchley, all three sisters fall in love with him, and Durbin decides that now is the time to take that final step towards adulthood, with ALL that it entails! "Who wants to be just useful and contented? After all, I am not a cow", Deanna Durbin complains, as she is about to flirt with disaster, preparing to be ravished by Tone in his boudoir of exotic trophies. Durbin hardly looks the Jezebel she makes a stab at, but she does look like a million bucks in her borrowed turban and black evening dress.
The dialog is snappy, often surprisingly racy for its time, the songs are classics ('The Old Folks at Home', 'Beneath the Lights of Home' etc.) and felt as well as beautifully sung by Durbin. It may not have quite the giddy strength of other Durbin movies such as 'First Love', but it is still a delightful experience.