On This Day...The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer(1947)

 Today, in 1947, Cary Grant released his 50th full length feature film...The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer.

Cary Grant is "The Bachelor" artist Richard Nugent, who in order to avoid being sentenced by Judge Turner (Myrna Loy) opts for the lesser sentence of escorting her younger sister Susan (Shirley Temple).

For the film's release in Great Britain the title was changed "Bachelor Knight"!

It was the second film that Cary Grant made with Myrna Loy. They made three in total, Wings In The Dark(1935), The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer(1947) and Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House(1948).

"The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer is a nice, clean, sunny old-fashioned farce...Cary Grant has now developed a characterization that is constant, fool-proof, engaging, hardy and warranted to be attractive." - Shirley O'Hara, The New Republic

"Cary Grant is pleasantly coy as the artist-playboy..." - Philip T. Hartung, The Commonweal

Cast:

Dick                           Cary Grant

Margaret                    Myrna Loy

Susan                         Shirley Temple

Tommy                      Rudy Vallee

Beemesh                    Ray Collins

Thaddeus                   Harry Davenport

Jerry                           Johnny Sands

Tony                          Don Beddoe

Bessie                        Lillian Randolph

Agnes Prescott           Veda Ann Borg

Walters                       Dan Tobin

Judge Treadwell        Ransom Serman

Winters                      William Bakewell

Melvin                       Irving Bacon

Perry                          Ian Bernard

Florence                     Carol Hughes

Anthony Herman       William Hall

Maitre d'Hotel            Gregory Gay

With Shirley Temple.

The Bachelor Knight with Shirley Temple.

With Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport and Rudy Vallee.

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Directed by Irving Reis.
Distributed by RKO Radio.
Running time: 95 minutes.

"Two Sisters Lived in Peace...", I guess until Cary Grant came along!!