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Good News (1947) -- At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring 20's, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane (June Allyson) falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe (Peter Lawford)...

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Director:
Writers:
Lew Brown (play) and
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Release Date:
26 December 1947 (USA) more
Plot:
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring 20's, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane (June Allyson)... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
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(3 articles)
The new fall TV season: Good news, for a change
 (From EW.com - PopWatch. 28 September 2009, 9:00 AM, PDT)

Sony Finally Reports Some Good News
 (From Studio Briefing - TV News. 27 August 2009, 1:46 PM, PDT)

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Football & prom season more (23 total)

Cast

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June Allyson ... Connie Lane
Peter Lawford ... Tommy Marlowe
Patricia Marshall ... Pat McClellan
Joan McCracken ... Babe Doolittle
Ray McDonald ... Bobby Turner
Mel Tormé ... Danny (as Mel Torme)
Robert E. Strickland ... Peter Van Dyne III (as Robert Strickland)
Donald MacBride ... Coach Johnson
Tom Dugan ... Pooch
Clinton Sundberg ... Professor Burton Kennyon
Loren Tindall ... Beef
Connie Gilchrist ... Cora the cook
Morris Ankrum ... Dean Griswold
Georgia Lee ... Flo
Jane Green ... Mrs. Drexel
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Runtime:
93 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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The original Broadway musical on which the screenplay and score were based was "Good News" that opened at Chanin's 46th Street Theatre on September 6, 1927 and ran for 557 performances. more
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Anachronisms: Not one of the "College Girls" is either dressed or coiffed in anything that resembles 1920s styles. The costumers used contemporary clothing (1947 that is) for virtually all scenes. more
Quotes:
Connie Lane: [as Pat McClellan is admiring herself in the mirror] Gee, I wish someone loved me like you love you! more
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Version of Good News (1930) more
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Pass That Peace Pipe more

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7 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
Football & prom season, 16 July 2006
Author: Anita de Acosta Keith (g_keith@sbcglobal.net) from Columbus, Ohio USA

Football is in the fall, at least nowadays it is. Prom is in the spring. So is graduation, at small colleges (I think).

This movie had football, prom, and graduation, all in the spring. Then, to top it all off, Tommy said he was getting a degree in French LOL. Tommy came off as such a dunce, and I never really picked up on what his major was, anyway.

I expected the women's hairstyles to be short bobs of the 1920s, and more Charleston dancing. These two points became lost when I decided to let myself get lost in the escapism and pure entertainment.

All in all, I still like this movie, very much. I really like the singing of June and Peter, and feel that they had very nice voices. Hope they were not dubbed. At any rate, they were honest and heartfelt vocal renderings.

June Allyson passed away several days ago (today is July 16, 2006), at age 88. In 'Good News', which I saw today for the third time, I figured I would melt in tears when she & Peter Lawford did the scene of 'The French Lesson'. That happened a little when I saw June in 'Little Women', shown 2 hours or so earlier, where Jo meets Laurie (June & Peter) late in the movie (I just saw the last part of it). I knew that I would be watching them again in 'Good News' a little later, because today was the June Allyson special presentation on TCM (7 of her movies).

I do like the 'Varsity Drag' in 'Good News', and wish June had danced more in this movie. I did enjoy how she and Peter led all the other dancers in the huge finale, each leading their group in a large tight triangle. It was so neat.

RIP June and Peter. We love you so. I am still melting in tears.

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