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Junior Miss

  • 19451945
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
190
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POPULARITY
106,215
23,842
Scotty Beckett, Mona Freeman, Peggy Ann Garner, Allyn Joslyn, and Faye Marlowe in Junior Miss (1945)
Comedy
New York teenager gets involved in everyone's lives by playing cupid. She turns the household upsidedown and gets her dad fired by fixing up her uncle with the boss's daughter.New York teenager gets involved in everyone's lives by playing cupid. She turns the household upsidedown and gets her dad fired by fixing up her uncle with the boss's daughter.New York teenager gets involved in everyone's lives by playing cupid. She turns the household upsidedown and gets her dad fired by fixing up her uncle with the boss's daughter.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
190
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
106,215
23,842
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • George Seaton
    • Writers
      • Sally Benson(novel)
      • Joseph Fields(play)
      • Jerome Chodorov(play)
    • Stars
      • Peggy Ann Garner
      • Stephen Dunne
      • Allyn Joslyn
    Top credits
    • Director
      • George Seaton
    • Writers
      • Sally Benson(novel)
      • Joseph Fields(play)
      • Jerome Chodorov(play)
    • Stars
      • Peggy Ann Garner
      • Stephen Dunne
      • Allyn Joslyn
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    • 8User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Mona Freeman in Junior Miss (1945)
    Scotty Beckett and Peggy Ann Garner in Junior Miss (1945)
    Scotty Beckett and Peggy Ann Garner in Junior Miss (1945)
    Scotty Beckett, Peggy Ann Garner, Eddy Hudson, and Barbara Whiting in Junior Miss (1945)
    Peggy Ann Garner in Junior Miss (1945)
    Peggy Ann Garner and Barbara Whiting in Junior Miss (1945)
    Peggy Ann Garner in Junior Miss (1945)
    Mona Freeman and Peggy Ann Garner in Junior Miss (1945)
    Sylvia Field, Peggy Ann Garner, and Allyn Joslyn in Junior Miss (1945)
    Sylvia Field, Mona Freeman, Peggy Ann Garner, Allyn Joslyn, and Barbara Whiting in Junior Miss (1945)
    Mona Freeman in Junior Miss (1945)
    Mona Freeman in Junior Miss (1945)

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    Peggy Ann Garner
    Peggy Ann Garner
    • Judy Graves
    Stephen Dunne
    Stephen Dunne
    • Uncle Willis Reynolds
    Allyn Joslyn
    Allyn Joslyn
    • Harry Graves
    Faye Marlowe
    Faye Marlowe
    • Ellen Curtis
    Mona Freeman
    Mona Freeman
    • Lois Graves
    Sylvia Field
    Sylvia Field
    • Mrs. Graves
    Barbara Whiting
    Barbara Whiting
    • Fuffy Adams
    Stanley Prager
    Stanley Prager
    • Joe - Elevator Operator
    John Alexander
    John Alexander
    • J. B. Curtis
    Connie Gilchrist
    Connie Gilchrist
    • Hilda
    Scotty Beckett
    Scotty Beckett
    • Haskell Cummings Jr.
    Alan Edwards
    Alan Edwards
    • Haskell Cummings Sr.
    Dorothy Christy
    Dorothy Christy
    • Mrs. Cummings
    William Frambes
    William Frambes
    • Merrill Feuerbach
    Ray Klinge
    • Donald Parker
    Mickey Titus
    • Tommy Arbuckle
    Mel Tormé
    Mel Tormé
    • Sterling Brown
    Eddy Hudson
    • Albert Kunody
    • Director
      • George Seaton
    • Writers
      • Sally Benson(novel)
      • Joseph Fields(play)
      • Jerome Chodorov(play)
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    • Trivia
      In 1942, Mary Pickford hoped to personally produce this film for United Artists with Shirley Temple. After several years of sitting on the shelf, Pickford sold the property to 20th Century-Fox.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Roseanne: Her Boyfriend's Back (1991)

    User reviews8

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    Top review
    6/10
    Sharply Written, Gone Flat
    Based on a series of stories by Sally Benson, this movie covers the trials and tribulations of lawyer Allyn Joslyn's family in Manhattan. It centers itself on Peggy Ann Garner, a dramatic 13-year-old girl whose imagination compares every situation to a vague memory of a movie she has seen, brings forth problems that don't exist, which she attempts to solve..... creating real problems which grow increasingly out of hand as the movie goes on.

    It was made into a Broadway show directed by Moss Hart, and the property was bought by Mary Pickford for her own production. Then she sold it to 20th Century-Fox, and it was handed over to their resident G-rated auteur, George Seaton.

    There are many things I enjoyed about this movie, particularly the jokes and the peripheral roles, like Miss Garner's friend, Barbara Whiting, whose character rejoices in the name 'Fuffy', one of those thirty-going-on-thirty characters. Yet it was difficult not to compare this to MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS -- same source material author, same adolescent girls-in-crisis model -- and find it curiously lacking. While these days, the essential audience of movie theaters in adolescent and young adults, back then everyone went to the movies, and this was released to the armed forces before the public. Its audience was everyone, fresh from the battlefield or seeking an evening's entertainment free from worries about the war after the newsreels were done. Therefore it has a sort of slick, unsympathetic, mocking view of its juvenile subjects that made it seem mean-spirited, even as I laughed at the gags and the restrained comic reactions of Mr. Joslyn. It's a movie which has not aged well.
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    • Jul 4, 2019

    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 8, 1946 (Finland)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La niña precoz
    • Filming locations
      • 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 34 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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