Jean Parker is a good girl. She thinks she may be in love with Ben Alexander, but she's not sure what that is. Her mother, Minna Gombell, isn't much help, and her father, Bryant Washburn, leaves such matters to her mother. Doctor Willard Mack tries to find out what the girl he brought into the world is up to, and urges Minna to speak to her, but she refuses, insisting that she had brought the girl up right. Mack doesn't think Sunday school classes when she was ten will do the trick. It turns out he's right.
It's a pre-code picture about sex, without much in the way of sex, just young men saying they're crazy about the young women they're with and kissing them. Also, the consequences of sex. Writer-director-star Willard Mack has written a serious, didactic story, and fleshed it out with some good performers -- Betty Grable gets only her fifth credited role in this one. In fact, Mr. Mack gives the poorest performance, as he races through his well rehearsed lines.
It's not a great movie, by any means, but it's amazing to think that in a few months, Miss Parker would play Beth March in LITTLE WOMEN.
It's a pre-code picture about sex, without much in the way of sex, just young men saying they're crazy about the young women they're with and kissing them. Also, the consequences of sex. Writer-director-star Willard Mack has written a serious, didactic story, and fleshed it out with some good performers -- Betty Grable gets only her fifth credited role in this one. In fact, Mr. Mack gives the poorest performance, as he races through his well rehearsed lines.
It's not a great movie, by any means, but it's amazing to think that in a few months, Miss Parker would play Beth March in LITTLE WOMEN.
