Margiedirected by Henry King | |
| Category: |
"Comedy" |
|---|---|
| Year of Release: | 1946 |
| Date Added: | 09/13/2024 |
| Date Watched: | 10/22/2024 |
| Description: | Margie MacDuff (Jeanne Crain) reminisces about her senior year in high school (1928) and the boys in her life. Margie is kind of a dork, the head of the debate team, and a girl who can't manage to keep her bloomers up. (She loses them three times during the movie.) Margie lives with her grandmother — her mom is dead and her mortician father lives elsewhere (for reasons that are never explained). Her steady is Roy, an earnest but awkward lad. She also has a crush on Johnny, the boyfriend of Marybelle, her best friend. But mostly she has a crush on her French teacher, Mr. Fontayne — and he has a crush on her too. He goes to her debate, shows up at her house repeatedly, and makes a point of saying hi to her every chance he gets. On the night of the big dance, Roy gets sick. Grandma makes arrangements for Margie's dad to take her to the dance, but when Mr. Fontayne shows up, Margie assumes he's come for her. She's devastated when she realizes he hasn't, but goes with her father when he comes to get her and is thrilled to be with him — especially when Johnny and Fontayne take turns dancing with her — until she loses her bloomers yet again. In the final scene, as Margie 20 years later explains all this to her daughter, her husband — Fontayne — comes home from work and dances with the two of them. |
| My Rating: | 7 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2024-10-22 20:20:48
