A DATE WITH JUDY
(M.G.M.) ANE POWELL (as _ 16-year-old Judy), Elizabeth Taylor (her girlfriend), and Scotty Beckett (her boyfriend), enjoy themselves over a highschool dance and its consequences at sunny Santa Barbara, California. They are assisted by Wallace Beery (Judy’s rough-diamond father), Robert Stack (the handsome, rather bored soda-jerk whom all the high-school girls fall for), Carmen Miranda (who teaches father Beery to rumba and wear loud ties), and Xavier Cugat. Everybody and everything is very "nice," including Carmen, and the whole show runs rather like one of the Andy Hardy series done over backwards, with Judy (who sings rather well) replacing Andy. Most of the juveniles in the audience (apparently about 90 per cent. of those present between the ages of six and 60) enjoyed themselves thoroughly, and didn’t seem to mind the somewhat inferior grade of technicolour in which the film is photo-
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P.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 18
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148A DATE WITH JUDY New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 18
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