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Director:
Peter Godfrey
Writers:
Charles Hoffman (writer)
Edith Kneipple Roberts (novel)
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Release Date:
1 November 1947 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
They gossiped about her in whispers! . . . The victim of idle tongues and meddling people!
Plot:
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Golden Globe. more
User Comments:
Not particularly good but does hold some latter-day interest. more (20 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Ronald Reagan ... Tom Bates

Shirley Temple ... Mary Hagen

Rory Calhoun ... Ken Freneau

Lois Maxwell ... Julia Kane
Dorothy Peterson ... Minta Hagen
Charles Kemper ... Jim Hagen

Conrad Janis ... Dewey Koons

Penny Edwards ... Christine Delaney
Jean Porter ... Sharon Bailey
Harry Davenport ... Judge A. Merrivale
Nella Walker ... Molly Freneau
Winifred Harris ... Selma Delaney
Moroni Olsen ... Trenton Gateley
Frank Conroy ... Dr. Stone
Kathryn Card ... Miss Grover
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Runtime:
83 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:S | USA:Approved (certificate #12522)
Filming Locations:
Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Company:
Warner Bros. Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell. more
Quotes:
Sharon Bailey: Of course, it's only gossip... rumor. My mother said that nobody really knows.
Mary Hagen: Knows what?
Sharon Bailey: Who you are.
Mary Hagen: Who I am? I'm me, of course. Mary Hagen.
Sharon Bailey: That's just it. Are you Mary Hagen, or are you...?
Mary Hagen: What are you talking about?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in After Hours (1985) more
Soundtrack:
Corn Pickin' more

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11 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
Not particularly good but does hold some latter-day interest., 5 December 1999
6/10
Author: Hermit C-2 from Marietta, GA, USA

Why wouldn't the moviegoing public accept Shirley Temple as a grown-up after being a child star? As a 19-year-old in this film she is as beautiful as she was cute as a child; and if she hadn't yet proved herself to be a great actress, her more mature screen persona beats her insufferably cute act as a child any day as far as this viewer is concerned.

Actually this movie's bad reputation is not hard to understand. Amazingly, Ms. Temple plays a high school student widely believed by the residents of her small town to be (gasp) illegitimate! to use an unfortunate term. Although she's as clean-cut and moral a young woman as you'll ever see, the small-minded townspeople think the worst of her in any slightly suspicious situation. Even though the movie is rather light-heated in tone, and never uses words like "illegitimate" or "pregnant," it's obvious the American public could not accept Temple in such a role.

The few dark moments that intrude into this overall lightweight movie don't mesh very well, and the film is really a rather prosaic soap opera, but it does hold some interest for latter-day viewers because of its stars. Ronald Reagan plays the man assumed to be Temple's father. It's become a cliche of Reagan's political opponents to say he's a bad actor, but the truth is he doesn't show much range in this film and it doesn't appear to be the kind of role he's suited for. Still, I find the older Shirley Temple interesting to watch and for this reason I'd recommend it to any of her fans, or movie fans in general.

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