{"id":3588,"date":"2009-11-12T22:12:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T02:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2009-11-12T22:12:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T02:12:27","slug":"bachelor-and-the-bobby-soxer-1947-irving-reis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3588","title":{"rendered":"Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947, Irving Reis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems safe to call this a screwball comedy.  Cary Grant, a famous painter of Americana whose work we never see, gives a lecture before lovestruck Shirley Temple&#8217;s class a couple hours after being dismissed by Temple&#8217;s judge sister Myrna Loy for taking part in a bar brawl.  An older-sister-younger-sister-Cary love triangle follows, complicated by serious man Rudy Vallee (guy with the constantly-broken specs in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11\">Palm Beach Story<\/a><\/em>) who likes Myrna.  Anyone who&#8217;s seen a romantic comedy before knows that two serious people should not end up together, so Myrna eventually warms up to the reputedly wild (we never see him misbehave much) Grant.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cary, Shirley&#8217;s own-age love-interest Johnny Sands, and Rudy:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/bobbysoxer1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Shirley is too good for the bellboy:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/bobbysoxer4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Won a well-deserved oscar for writing, beating out <em>Monsieur Verdoux<\/em> and <em>Shoeshine<\/em>.  Super enjoyable overall, and Shirley Temple is excellent. Can&#8217;t think of any other 18-year-old who would&#8217;ve equalled her performance.  That&#8217;s the upside of being a child star.  The downside is that the following year at 19, with a kid and an abusive husband (MST3K target John Agar), her film career was over.<\/p>\n<p><em>Myrna Loy is not amused:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/bobbysoxer3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Also good: the girls&#8217; uncle (Orson Welles regular Ray Collins) as a meddling, unethical psychologist, and grumpy oldster Harry Davenport (<em><em>Meet Me In St. Louis<\/em><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/612\">You Can&#8217;t Take It With You<\/a><\/em>).  Written by Sidney Sheldon (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/431\">Anything Goes<\/a><\/em>, <em>Pardners<\/em>, <em>Annie Get Your Gun<\/em>) and energetically directed by Reis, who&#8217;d be dead from cancer six years later.<\/p>\n<p><em>How everyone in the 40&#8217;s saw Cary Grant:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/bobbysoxer2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems safe to call this a screwball comedy. Cary Grant, a famous painter of Americana whose work we never see, gives a lecture before lovestruck Shirley Temple&#8217;s class a couple hours after being dismissed by Temple&#8217;s judge sister Myrna Loy for taking part in a bar brawl. An older-sister-younger-sister-Cary love triangle follows, complicated by serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,73,974,547],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-cary-grant","tag-myrna-loy","tag-shirley-temple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3656,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}