This was Ethel Barrymore's final screen appearance and she bows out in a most dignified way.
The story stretches credulity but is a sweet tale of an elderly woman who chooses to remain in the hotel she has lived in for many years, and which contains an apartment she owns, when it is purchased by a university and transformed into a male dorm.
Taken on as a surrogate grandmother by the guys she lives in genteel peace in the best behaved dorm in existence. One day she discovers that one of the men, the angriest of them-the Johnny Trouble of the title, might be the son of her son who vanished decades before and she tries to straighten him out. Along the way she meets the girl who has fallen for Johnny, played by Carolyn Jones, and strikes up a friendship with her as well. So it goes for the most of the remainder of the film.
It's not a great film but endearing and a nice way for a great actress to close out her career.
The story stretches credulity but is a sweet tale of an elderly woman who chooses to remain in the hotel she has lived in for many years, and which contains an apartment she owns, when it is purchased by a university and transformed into a male dorm.
Taken on as a surrogate grandmother by the guys she lives in genteel peace in the best behaved dorm in existence. One day she discovers that one of the men, the angriest of them-the Johnny Trouble of the title, might be the son of her son who vanished decades before and she tries to straighten him out. Along the way she meets the girl who has fallen for Johnny, played by Carolyn Jones, and strikes up a friendship with her as well. So it goes for the most of the remainder of the film.
It's not a great film but endearing and a nice way for a great actress to close out her career.