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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

  • 19471947
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 35m
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Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, and Myrna Loy in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
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A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.
IMDb RATING
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    • Director
      • Irving Reis
    • Writer
      • Sidney Sheldon(original story and screen play)
    • Stars
      • Cary Grant
      • Myrna Loy
      • Shirley Temple
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Irving Reis
    • Writer
      • Sidney Sheldon(original story and screen play)
    • Stars
      • Cary Grant
      • Myrna Loy
      • Shirley Temple
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 71User reviews
    • 25Critic reviews
    • 59Metascore
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 1 win total

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    Shirley Temple, Barbara Boone, and Johnny Sands in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    Cary Grant and Shirley Temple in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy, Harry Davenport, Ray Collins, and Rudy Vallee in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    Cary Grant and Shirley Temple in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    Cary Grant and Rudy Vallee in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    Shirley Temple and Myrna Loy in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy, Ray Collins, and Rudy Vallee in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    Shirley Temple and Steve Wayne in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    Cary Grant and Shirley Temple in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, and Myrna Loy in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    Cary Grant and Myrna Loy in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, and Myrna Loy in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

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    Cary Grant
    Cary Grant
    • Dick Nugent
    Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy
    • Judge Margaret Turner
    Shirley Temple
    Shirley Temple
    • Susan Turner
    Rudy Vallee
    Rudy Vallee
    • District Attorney Tommy Chamberlain
    Ray Collins
    Ray Collins
    • Dr. Matthew Beemish
    Harry Davenport
    Harry Davenport
    • Judge Thaddeus Turner
    Johnny Sands
    Johnny Sands
    • Jerry White
    Don Beddoe
    Don Beddoe
    • Joey
    Lillian Randolph
    Lillian Randolph
    • Bessie
    Veda Ann Borg
    Veda Ann Borg
    • Agnes Prescott
    Dan Tobin
    Dan Tobin
    • Chester Walters
    Ransom M. Sherman
    • Judge Treadwell
    • (as Ransom Sherman)
    William Bakewell
    William Bakewell
    • Winters
    Irving Bacon
    Irving Bacon
    • Melvin - Police Turnkey
    Ian Bernard
    • Perry
    Carol Hughes
    Carol Hughes
    • Florence
    William Hall
    William Hall
    • Anthony Herman
    Gregory Gaye
    Gregory Gaye
    • Maitre d'Hotel
    • (as Gregory Gay)
    • Director
      • Irving Reis
    • Writer
      • Sidney Sheldon(original story and screen play)
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    • Trivia
      There are a couple of in joke references to Shirley Temple in the film. When Cary Grant is sitting with Shirley in the soda shop, the waitress serves him a "Shirley Temple" drink. Later, when Shirley is in her room, packing her suitcase, she takes a Shirley Temple doll off the mantle over her fireplace.
    • Goofs
      When the main characters arrive at the picnic in a jalopy, the windshield is folded down but when they get out, it's back up.
    • Quotes

      Richard Nugent: Hey, you remind me of a man.

      Susan Turner: What man?

      Richard Nugent: Man with the power.

      Susan Turner: What power?

      Richard Nugent: Power of hoodoo.

      Susan Turner: Hoodoo?

      Richard Nugent: You do.

      Susan Turner: Do what?

      Richard Nugent: Remind me of a man...

    • Alternate versions
      Also available in a computer colorized version.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Screen Writer (1950)
    • Soundtracks
      The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
      (uncredited)

      Music by Joseph Meyer and Don Meyer

      Lyrics by Howard Phillips

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    Threading the Needle
    Want some insight into what titillated movie-goers in the post-war 1940's? This 1947 RKO production is a good place to start. There's the marquee value of a seductively handsome Cary Grant coupled with that spunky symbol of all-American innocence Shirley Temple, enough at the time to draw in ticket-buying throngs with its naughty innuendo of daring departure and forbidden pleasure. In fact, the underage subtext lingers beneath much of the movie's plot and humorous settings, but in a totally innocent manner, proving that this is not yet the more permissive 1960's. One slip, however, and this light-hearted soufflé could easily have become burnt-toast of the most tasteless variety. Fortunately, there are no slips.

    Once the pace picks up, this comedy sparkles as brightly as any other Cary Grant madcap, which is to say, about as good as comedy gets. The nightclub scene is an absolute triumph of timing, staging, and scripting. The laughs build as the party table becomes more and more chaotic, interrupted by one petty annoyance after another, finally reducing the worldly Grant to speechless exasperation. This is the type of soaring comedic architecture that requires real artistry, but has been sadly replaced in contemporary film by a dumbed- down world of bathroom jokes, insult gags, and other cheap forms of humor that appeal mainly to juveniles.

    The movie itself, directed by an unheralded Irving Reis, is literally brimful of bounce and charm, leaving no one in doubt that the big war is over and America is ready for the future even if its libido is showing. With: a slyly endearing Ray Collins, a bemusedly prim Myrna Loy, a pompously befuddled Rudy Vallee, and a well-deserved Oscar for writer Sidney Sheldon, along with a final scene that could not be more apt. Despite the shift in public mores, audiences now as then should find this a highly entertaining ninety minutes of expert movie- making.
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    • Jul 4, 2010

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    • Release date
      • September 1, 1947 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Suddenly It's Spring
    • Filming locations
      • Beverly Hills High School - 241 Moreno Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Vanguard Films
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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