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Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   2,540 votes
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Director:
Irving Reis
Writers:
Sidney Sheldon (story)
Sidney Sheldon (screenplay)
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Release Date:
1 September 1947 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
Rollicking Romantics!
Plot:
A high school girl falls for a playboy artist with screwball results. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. more
NewsDesk:
Sidney Sheldon Dies
 (From WENN. 1 February 2007)

User Comments:
Enjoyable Light Comedy more (43 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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 (as Ransom Sherman)
William Bakewell ... Winters
Irving Bacon ... Melvin
Ian Bernard ... Perry
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bachelor Knight (UK)
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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate #11849) | Canada:G (video rating) | USA:Approved (National Board of Review) | West Germany:16 | Finland:S | Australia:G | UK:U

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Myrna Loy was only twenty-three older than her on-screen sister Shirley Temple . more
Goofs:
Boom mic visible: Reflection of boom mic visible in black car when it pulls up to the airport. more
Quotes:
Agnes Prescott: Now there's a guy who never goes out of a girl's mind. He just stays there... like a heavy meal. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Labyrinth (1986) more
Soundtrack:
Happy Birthday to You more

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13 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
Enjoyable Light Comedy, 12 August 2004
Author: Snow Leopard from Ohio

With three appealing stars and a silly but interesting story, this is an enjoyable light comedy that moves at a good pace and makes you feel at home with its offbeat characters. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple all get plenty to work with, as each of their characters is pretty well-suited to their talents. They make their characters believably flawed and engaging at the same time.

The story makes it clear early on that it should not be taken too seriously, yet it is told well enough that it is easy to set aside any plausibility issues. The early misadventures set up the amusing arrangement that the judge (Loy) agrees to, in the hopes of keeping the others out of trouble, and this in turn sets up a new series of outlandish events. Harry Davenport and Ray Collins head up a pretty good supporting cast, and the situation builds pretty well, leading up to a complicated, entertaining set of tangle-ups.

While there is nothing remarkable about it, "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" is the kind of pleasant silliness that takes the right touch to make it work. It makes for an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half.

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