Janie (1944)
- Starring:
- Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, (more)
- Director(s):
- Michael Curtiz
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, Rovi
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
- Georgia Lee Settle - Susan Wiley
- Joe "Corky" Geil - High School Boy
- Virginia Sale - Neighbor
- Monte Blue - Policeman
- Jimmie Dodd - Pvt. Frank Parker
- Tanis Chandler - High School Girl
- Kirk Barron - M.P.
- 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
- William Hunter - M.P. Sergeant
- Richard Erdman - Wilber "Scooper" Nolan
- Joe Gilbert - Soda Jerk
- John Alvin - Photographer
- Sunset Carson - Sgt. Carl
- Eddie Bruce - Bus Driver
- Director(s):
- Michael Curtiz
- Writer(s):
- Agnes Christine Johnston, Charles Hoffman
- Producer(s):
- Alex Gottlieb
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