An Old-Fashioned Girl

When her father goes broke, spunky daughter Gloria Jean goes out and tries to earn a living. This earns her the admiration of Jimmy Lydon, but the scorn of society ladies.

Arthur Dreifuss is remembered as a writer and director for Monogram, PRC, Sam Katzman, and in the 1960s, cheap "hippie" movies, but when he had the chance he was quite capable of turning out inexpensive but very pleasant musicals, like this one based on a Louisa May Alcott story. The numbers are a mix of long-out-of-copyright numbers -- Miss Jean sings a lovely version of "Beautiful Dreamer. Quite obviously cheaply produced for Eagle-Lion -- which would shortly swallow United Artists -- it's a charming little black-and-white number.