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Kiss and Tell

"The play Broadway roared at for over two years, now...a great Columbia Picture!"

Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.

Top Cast

  • Shirley Temple

    Shirley Temple

    Corliss Archer

  • Jerome Courtland

    Jerome Courtland

    Dexter Franklin

  • Walter Abel

    Walter Abel

    Harry Archer

  • Katharine Alexander

    Katharine Alexander

    Janet Archer

  • Robert Benchley

    Robert Benchley

    George Archer

  • Porter Hall

    Porter Hall

    Bill Franklin

  • Virginia Welles

    Virginia Welles

    Mildred Pringle

  • Tom Tully

    Tom Tully

    Bob Pringle

  • Darryl Hickman

    Darryl Hickman

    Raymond Pringle

Overview

Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.

Rating

6.3 / 10
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    CinemaSerf
    6 Jul 1, 2022

    Poor old Porter Hall gets most of the acting plaudits here. He is "Bill" who, together with his wife "Janet" (Katharine Alexander) and daughter "Corliss" (Shirley Temple) lives next to the "Pringle" family. Their two daughters like to get up to some teen mischief, and after one such trivial incident their mothers fall out. Meantime the slightly older "Mildred Pringle" (Virginia Welles) falls for a squaddie gets pregnant and they elope. She swears her best pal "Corliss" to secrecy, but the parents get the wrong end of the stick and conclude that it's actually "Corliss" who has been up to naughties with gangly boy-next-door "Dexter" (Jerome Courtland) and that the baby is their's. Oh, the scandal! Chaos ensues and that's where Hall comes to the fore - his paternal frustrations are well demonstrated with quite a fun few moments of amusing parental angst. Courtland is also quite good as the "holy cow" youth, sweet on "Corliss", who is all to happy to reap the advantages of this snowballing misunderstanding. It borders on farce just a bit to much for me, though - to many implausible co-incidences and the character of "Corliss" is quite unpleasantly selfish and manipulative. Still, it doesn't hang about, and there is nothing wrong with it as 90 minutes of lightly comedic wartime entertainment that passes the time fine.

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Easy A

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