Nice Girl? (1941)
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Nice Girl? answers its own question by casting the relentlessy nice Deanna Durbin in the title role. In her first truly adult role, Durbin plays Jane Dana, the blossoming daughter of high school principal Oliver Dana (Robert Benchley). Jane is being ardently courted by longtime boyfriend Don Webb (Robert Stack) and by the more worldly Richard Calvert (Franchot Tone). A series of misunderstandings leads to the demure Jane earning an unsavory (and wholly unjustified) "reputation", but it all turns out okay by fadeout time. It is not only unfair to reveal the ending, but also quite difficult, since the current video version of Nice Girl includes the film's "alternate" ending, which is rather different than the denoument in the officially released version. Ms. Durbin's songs on this occasion range from such standards as "Old Folks at Home" to four newly-minted tunes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Deanna Durbin - Jane Dana
- Walter Brennan - Hector Titus, Postman
- Robert Benchley - Oliver W.H. Dana
- Ann Gillis - Nancy Dana
- Elizabeth Risdon - Martha Peasley
- Georgie Billings - Pinky Greene
- Marcia Mae Jones - Girl
- Selmar Jackson
- William B. Davidson - Bearded Man
- Franchot Tone - Richard Calvert
- Robert Stack - Donald Winthrop Webb
- Helen Broderick - Cora Foster, Housekeeper
- Anne Gwynne - Sylvia Dana
- Nana Bryant - Mary Peasley
- Tommy Kelly - Ken Atkins
- Leonard Carey - Upton, Calvert Butler
- Edmund MacDonald - Army Officer
- Director(s):
- William Seiter
- Writer(s):
- Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman
- Producer(s):
- Joe Pasternak
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