Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 06/01/2004
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Judge
Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher
Cary Grant is to force him to do what he does best--romance a willing young lady. In this instance, the girl is
Loy's own sister, played by a blossoming
Shirley Temple. Aware that
Temple has a serious crush on
Grant,
Loy orders him to date the teen-aged
Temple until the girl gets him out of her system; he is also ordered to keep his hands to himself lest he wind up in the pokey.
Grant finds the irrepressible
Temple rather wearisome, but he throws himself into his sentence full-force, donning teenaged clothes, speaking in nonsense slang ("Voodoo! Who Do? You Do!" etc.) and participating in the athletic events at a high school picnic.
Grant eventually divests himself of
Temple by arranging for her to fall for a boy her own age; meanwhile,
Loy realizes what we've realized all along--that it is she who is truly smitten by
Grant. Adding to the frothy fun of
Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer are the supporting performances of
Ray Collins as a sagacious psychologist and
Rudy Vallee as a stuffy district attorney. The film's screenplay won an Academy Award for
Sidney Sheldon, who went on to create
I Dream of Jeannie and to matriculate into a best-selling novelist.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
