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In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther called the film "most agreeable" and praised the four principal performers, the direction and screenplay. The movie also premiered at the Radio City Music Hall.
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer: Directed by Irving Reis. With Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee. A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Irving Reis
- 1947-09-01
"The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" is a dated, but delightful screwball comedy that makes you laugh a lot. Cary Grant is hilarious in the role of a playboy and wolf that is involved by an annoying teenager and sentenced based on his reputation.
THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER, is an interesting movie, which won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for Sidney Sheldon. Grant plays Richard Nugent, a gentleman painter, who gets caught up in a public disturbance in a nightclub, and appears before Judge Margaret Turner, played by Myrna Loy.
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a delightful comedy about a playboy artist who is ordered to escort a judge's impressionable teen-age sister everywhere. [16 Jan 1990, p.4] Read More
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- Irving Reis
- Approved
- Cary Grant
Things get complicated when Susan sneaks away and is found in Dickie's apartment, and downright zany when he is court ordered to date the teen as a way of easing her attraction.
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- Comedy
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