Obliging Young Lady

1942
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1h 20m

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Joan Carroll, Edmond O'Brien, and Ruth Warrick in Obliging Young Lady (1942)

Linda Norton est chargée par l'avocat de son employeur d'emmener la jeune Bridget, dont les riches parents sont en instance de divorce, dans une station balnéaire isolée, pour protéger la je... Tout lireLinda Norton est chargée par l'avocat de son employeur d'emmener la jeune Bridget, dont les riches parents sont en instance de divorce, dans une station balnéaire isolée, pour protéger la jeune fille des journalistes et de la publicité.Linda Norton est chargée par l'avocat de son employeur d'emmener la jeune Bridget, dont les riches parents sont en instance de divorce, dans une station balnéaire isolée, pour protéger la jeune fille des journalistes et de la publicité.

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Anecdotes
In the opening scene, Red Reddy repeats "Heinie Manush" to the rhythm of the motion of the train he's riding and gradually the other passengers begin to repeat it as well. Henry "Heinie" Manush was a major league ballplayer who played for 17 seasons (1923-1939) and had retired from baseball at the time this film was made. He had a .330 career batting average and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964.

Gaffes
Florence Gill is credited onscreen as "Miss Hollyrod", but it is Nora Cecil who is called by that name.

Citations
[first lines]
'Red' Reddy: [chants the name of a baseball player in rhythm of the train in motion - soon picked up by everyone on the train] Heinie Manush-Heinie Manush-Heinie Manush-Heinie Manush...

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The Volga Boatman
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In the score in the rowboat scene

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5/10

Silly comedy gets boorish behavior from every member of the cast...

It's painfully obvious that OBLIGING YOUNG LADY is about a bratty girl who isn't the least bit obliging. Nor do the adults around her behave with any more common sense throughout the running time of this weak screwball comedy.

JOAN CARROLL gets top billing as the bratty girl given to putting tacks on chairs for sheer delight. EDMOND O'BRIEN proves that comedy was not his forte; EVE ARDEN is totally wasted as a newspaper woman; RUTH WARRICK is pretty but can do nothing much with a bland role as a lawyer who takes the girl to a lodge in the country while the parents are involved in a custody battle.

The good supporting cast includes GEORGE CLEVELAND, CHARLES LANE, FORTUNIO BONANOVA and FRANKLIN PANGBORN. Pangborn is the only bright note in the comedy, arriving at the lodge with his bird group and providing some genuinely amusing comic moments with their bird calls.

RKO was obviously hoping to provide a star vehicle for child actress JOAN CARROLL but the character she plays is obnoxious from scene one and the script never gives her an opportunity to be anything but annoying.

Bad script defeats everyone and results in a strained and very foolish comedy in which everyone is guilty of boorish behavior.