HER FIRST BEAU
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OT to be confused with Her First Romance, which Edith Fellows celebrated just recently, this is a small picture and a
surprisingly entertaining one in its unpretentious, rather humdrum way. A comedy-drama of small-town American life, it describes the awkward adolescent problems of Jane Withers (she’s getting a big girl now) and Jackie Cooper. Ordinarily I find the precocious behaviour of American youth in general, and of Jackie Cooper in particular, extremely — obnoxious, but in this case the youngsters contrive to inject enough human touches into their calf-love affairs to be convincing as well as moderately amusing. There’s the deadly seriousness of adolescence in everything they do, whether it’s breaking their hearts or ,trying to break their necks. You could meet many worse films on a double feature programme than Her First Beau.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 17
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137HER FIRST BEAU New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 17
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