Janie (1944)
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Synopsis of Janie
Janie, adapted from the Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams, was one of a 1940s cycle of stage-to-film comedies about teenagers. Joyce Reynolds stars as Janie, a typical teen whose life is turned topsy turvy by the installation of a military base near her home town. Edward Arnold and Ann Harding, exasperated and understanding respectively, play Janie's parents. Robert Hutton is the soldier and Richard Erdman the hometown boy who vie for Janie's attentions. The film is cloying at times, but survives as a reasonably accurate representation of teenage life in the war years, right down to the "coded slang" used to throw parents off the track. Janie ends with the Army marching out and the Marines marching in, leaving the door wide open for a sequel, which appeared in 1946 under the title Janie Gets Married. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Janie
- Robert Hutton - Pvt. Dick Lawrence
- Ann Harding - Lucille Conway
- Alan Hale - Reardon
- Barbara Brown - Thelma Lawrence
- Jackie Moran - Mickey
- Ruth Tobey - Bernadine Dodd
- Colleen Townsend - Hortense Bennett
- Russell Hicks - Col. Lucas
- Monte Blue - Policeman
- William Hunter - M.P. Sergeant
- Joe "Corky" Geil - High School Boy
- Kirk Barron - M.P.
- Joe Gilbert - Soda Jerk
- Tanis Chandler - High School Girl
- Virginia Sale - Neighbor
- Edward Arnold - Charles Conway
- Robert Benchley - John Van Brunt
- Claire Foley - Elspeth Conway
- Hattie McDaniel - April
- Ann Gillis - Paula Rainey
- Virginia Patton - Carrie Lou Trivett
- William Frambes - Dead Pan Hackett
- Joyce Reynolds - Janie Conway
- John Alvin - Photographer
- Jimmie Dodd - Pvt. Frank Parker
- Sunset Carson - Sgt. Carl
- Eddie Bruce - Bus Driver
- Richard Erdman - Wilber "Scooper" Nolan
- Georgia Lee Settle - Susan Wiley
- Director(s):
- Michael Curtiz
- Writer(s):
- Charles Hoffman, Agnes Christine Johnston
- Producer(s):
- Alex Gottlieb
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