The Girl from Jones Beach

1949
Approved
1h 18m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,1/10

658

MA NOTE

Ronald Reagan, Eddie Bracken, and Virginia Mayo in The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)

Liretrailer2 min 10 s

1 vidéo

15 photos

Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA pinup artist (Ronald Reagan) in search of the perfect woman poses as a Czech immigrant to win over a shapely schoolteacher (Virginia Mayo) who’s more into facts than figures.A pinup artist (Ronald Reagan) in search of the perfect woman poses as a Czech immigrant to win over a shapely schoolteacher (Virginia Mayo) who’s more into facts than figures.A pinup artist (Ronald Reagan) in search of the perfect woman poses as a Czech immigrant to win over a shapely schoolteacher (Virginia Mayo) who’s more into facts than figures.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,1/10

658

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Anecdotes
Lauren Bacall turned down the role as Ruth Wilson because it called for her to appear in a bathing suit. She said: "I'm not a bathing beauty ... I'll be embarrassed."

Gaffes
Ruth tells the class that Czechoslovakia is made up of "several interesting racial strains," and then asks "Mr Benerik" if he is "Croat or Slovak." "Croats" are from the former Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatia). The former Czechoslovakia was comprised of Czechs and Slovaks. Furthermore, "Mr Benerik's" accent is so atrocious that, even if Ruth did not realize it, his classmate Mr Stravitch would realize it in seconds.

Citations
Collection Agent: Can I give you a lift?
Chuck Donovan: I'm going to throw myself off the Brooklyn bridge.
Collection Agent: Oh sorry. I'm going to the Bronx.

Générique farfelu
The opening title and acting credits are shown in a live action scene in a gift shop as postcards on a turning rack, then a woman's hand flips through more postcards for the remaining credits.

Connexions
Referenced in Lily for President? (1982)

Bandes originales
The Girl from Jones Beach
(uncredited)
Written by Eddie Seiler and Sol Marcus
Sung by a chorus during the opening credits and occasionally throughout the picture

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6/10

Ron shows his funny side

No one will ever say that The Girl from Jones Beach is any kind of masterpiece film, but it did provide Ronald Reagan one of the few opportunities to demonstrate a flair for comedy.

Reagan is an artist whose subject matter is beautiful women. He's in fact put together quite a collection of photographs of women who have the most beautiful body part, subject A: best hips, subject B: best ankles, etc. Put them all together with their best features showing and you have the perfect woman.

One day Reagan and pal Eddie Bracken spot Virginia Mayo in a bathing suit on Jones Beach. Here's where some comparisons to the Warner Brothers Marion Davies film Page Miss Glory can be made. She also is a walking composite photograph.

Of course Mayo is a school teacher who's not particularly interested in having a career exposing her body to the leering male population. I think you can figure out the rest of this.

Another reviewer said that this would be interesting as a horror film remake. Actually there was such a film made that starred Lilli Palmer, The House That Dripped Blood. Same premise about body parts.

Reagan does show good comedic abilities. He tries to woo Mayo by pretending to be an immigrant taking a night school class she runs for prospective citizenship applicants. His mittel-europa accent that he puts on is no worse than Rock Hudson's Texan speech in Pillow Talk.

It looked like the cast was having a good time filming this thing and the results are positive.