The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Name: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: September 1, 1947
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Cary Grant, Don Beddoe, Harry Davenport, Johnny Sands, Lillian Randolph

1947

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RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: September 1, 1947 | Approved

Starring: Cary Grant, Don Beddoe, Harry Davenport, Johnny Sands, Lillian Randolph, Myrna Loy, Ray Collins, Rudy Vallee, Shirley Temple, Veda Ann Borg

Summary: A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.

Director: Irving Reis

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 95 min

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Bosley Crowther

It is all reminiscent of some of those gay, galvanic larks that Gregory LaCava and Leo McCarey used to make ten or more years ago. And a higher recommendation we can't give to a light summer show. Read full review

Philip French

Wholly delightful, utterly inconsequential comedy. [07 Aug 2005, p.87]

Crosby Day

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a delightful comedy about a playboy artist who is ordered to escort a judge's impressionable teen-age sister everywhere. [16 Jan 1990, p.4]

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Chuckles get heartier and heartier as adult Grant plays at being a juvenile at basketball games, school picnics, etc. It’s done with slapstick touch that pays off. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Silly premise allows sophisticated Grant to explode into side-splitting antics, aping the teenaged set. If you adore Grant, you'll enjoy this farce, but Loy's breezy charm is wasted and Temple has reached that age where her preciousness can be irritating to behold. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Grant seems stymied in this claustrophobic, essentially misogynistic material, and director Irving Reis isn’t the man to pull him out. Read full review

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