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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (released as Bachelor Knight in the United Kingdom[4]) is a 1947 American screwball romantic comedy-drama film directed by Irving Reis and written by Sidney Sheldon. The film stars Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple in a story about a teenager's crush on an older man.

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
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Directed by	Irving Reis
Written by	Sidney Sheldon
Produced by	Dore Schary
Starring	Cary Grant Myrna Loy Shirley Temple
Cinematography	Nicholas Musuraca Robert De Grasse
Edited by	Frederic Knudtson
Music by	Leigh Harline
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	July 24, 1947 (1947-07-24) (Premiere-NYC)[1] September 1, 1947 (1947-09-01) (USA)[1]
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,961,000[2][3]
Box office	$5,550,000 (worldwide rentals)[2][3]

Upon its release, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer was well received by both audiences and critics. Sidney Sheldon won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for this film.

Plot

Margaret Turner (Myrna Loy) and Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) are sisters who live together. Susan is an intelligent 17-year-old high-school student with a habit of forming short-lived interests after hearing the regular guest lectures at school. Margaret is a judge, and Susan's guardian.

Richard Nugent (Cary Grant), a handsome and sophisticated artist, is a defendant in Margaret's courtroom, charged by ADA Tommy Chamberlain (Rudy Vallee) with starting a nightclub brawl. She releases him with a warning when it becomes clear that the fight was started by two women fighting over him.

He proceeds to Susan's school, where he is the guest lecturer for the day—and as he speaks, Susan becomes infatuated with him. After the talk she finds a reason to spend time with him and suggests she model for him; that evening, she puts on a sophisticated dress and sneaks away from home and into his apartment while he is out.

Richard has no sooner discovered Susan in his apartment than Tommy and Margaret arrive to rescue her from his presumed seduction. Richard assaults Tommy and is held in jail until Matt Beemish (Ray Collins), who is the court psychiatrist and also Margaret and Susan's uncle, intervenes and explains the true situation. He recommends allowing Susan to date Richard until the infatuation burns itself out; Tommy will drop the assault charge if Richard complies.

At a high-school basketball game, Richard tries unsuccessfully to boost Susan's image of Jerry White (Johnny Sands), the boyfriend she dumped for him. Later, at a school picnic, Susan persuades Richard to enter a series of novelty races (open to adult family members), where he loses repeatedly to Tommy. But in the main event, an obstacle course, she asks Jerry to help Richard win. Because he still loves her, Jerry complies, helping him directly at one point, then colliding with Tommy so that Richard does win the event.

Meanwhile, Richard and Margaret are becoming attracted to each other, to the discomfiture of Tommy, who sees Richard as a habitual troublemaker and wants Margaret for himself. Hoping Richard will stop seeing Margaret if he no longer has to date Susan, Tommy announces he is dropping the charge. But Richard and Margaret go out to a nightclub, where they are interrupted in succession by all the other main characters as well as a former girlfriend of Richard's. They all part angrily. Susan accuses Margaret of stealing her boyfriend from her. Matt gets Susan to see that she is only infatuated with Richard and that Richard is too old for her.

Afterwards, though, Matt is able to talk sense into Susan, and she returns to Jerry. Matt finds out that Richard has decided to take a trip and is able to manipulate affairs so that Margaret will travel with him. Learning that Tommy is coming to arrest Richard on trumped-up charges, Matt forestalls him by telling police at the airport that Tommy is a mental patient with delusions of being an Assistant district attorney. Richard and Margaret are happily surprised to meet each other as they approach the plane to board thanks to Matt's manipulation

Cast

• Cary Grant as Richard Nugent, a sophisticated bachelor
• Myrna Loy as Margaret Turner, a judge
• Shirley Temple as Susan Turner, her teenage sister
• Rudy Vallée as Tommy Chamberlain, an assistant district attorney
• Ray Collins as Dr. Matt Beemish, a psychiatrist and Margaret and Susan's uncle
• Harry Davenport as Judge Thaddeus Turner, Margaret and Susan's great uncle
• Johnny Sands as Jerry White, Susan's teenage boyfriend
• Don Beddoe as Joey
• Lillian Randolph as Bessie
• Veda Ann Borg as Agnes Prescott
• Dan Tobin as Walters
• Ransom M. Sherman as Judge Treadwell
• William Bakewell as Winters
• Irving Bacon as Melvin
• Ian Bernard as Perry
• Carol Hughes as Florence
• William Hall as Anthony Herman
• Gregory Gaye as Maitre d'Hotel (credited as Gregory Gay)
• Pat Flaherty as Sunset High Coach (uncredited)

Reception

The New York Times thought the film "most agreeable" with high praise for the four principal performers, the direction and screenplay.[5]

The film's screenplay won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for Sidney Sheldon, who went on to create I Dream of Jeannie, Hart to Hart, and, as a novelist, Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973), and Rage of Angels (1980).

According to RKO records, the film earned $4,200,000 in theater rentals in the U.S. and Canada and $1,350,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $700,000.[2][3][6]

Home media

In 2009, the film was available on videocassette and DVD.

Radio adaptation

It was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the May 10, 1948 broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple. It was also dramatized as a Lux Radio Theater adaptation starring Cary Grant and Shirley Temple that aired on June 13, 1949.

In popular culture

David Bowie's song "Magic Dance", which appears in the 1986 film Labyrinth, includes lyrics that refer to Cary Grant and Shirley Temple's call and reply dialogue heard in the film: "You remind me of a man." "What man?" "The man with the power." "What power?" "The power of hoodoo." "Who do?" "You do!". In "Magic Dance", "man" is replaced with "babe" and "hoodoo" with "voodoo".[7]

See also

• Shirley Temple filmography

References

External links

• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer at IMDb 
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer at the TCM Movie Database
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer at Letterboxd
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer at AllMovie
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer at the American Film Institute Catalog
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Review at The Ultimate Cary Grant Pages
• Radio adaptation of The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer June 13, 1949 on Lux Radio Theater; 60 minutes, with Cary Grant and Shirley Temple (MP3)

На других языках

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[de] So einfach ist die Liebe nicht

So einfach ist die Liebe nicht (Originaltitel: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie des Regisseurs Irving Reis aus dem Jahr 1947 nach einer Erzählung von Drehbuchautor Sidney Sheldon. Der Film wurde von RKO produziert. Deutschland-Premiere war am 30. September 1949.

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- [en] The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

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