Remember when Shirley Temple became a teenager and she made a few awkward films about the generation gap before rock 'n roll kicked in? A Date with Judy reminds me of one of those movies.
In this one, Wallace Beery plays the out-of-touch father, and his daughter Jane Powell tries to teach him the errors of his ways. Powell sings "Love is Where You Find It", a song that Kathryn Grayson also introduced in 1948's The Kissing Bandit; will we ever know who was truly the originator? To help teach her structured father, Powell enlists the help of Carmen Miranda and Xavier Cugat. They basically play themselves.
If you're not intimately familiar with the 1940s, the movie will seem incredibly dated. It's chalk-full of songs and dances, and a teenage romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Stack, but it doesn't really stand the test of time very well.
In this one, Wallace Beery plays the out-of-touch father, and his daughter Jane Powell tries to teach him the errors of his ways. Powell sings "Love is Where You Find It", a song that Kathryn Grayson also introduced in 1948's The Kissing Bandit; will we ever know who was truly the originator? To help teach her structured father, Powell enlists the help of Carmen Miranda and Xavier Cugat. They basically play themselves.
If you're not intimately familiar with the 1940s, the movie will seem incredibly dated. It's chalk-full of songs and dances, and a teenage romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Stack, but it doesn't really stand the test of time very well.