Margie

1946
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1h 34m

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A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

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Jeanne Crain

Marjorie 'Margie' MacDuff

Glenn Langan

Prof. Ralph Fontayne

Lynn Bari

Miss Isabel Palmer

Alan Young

Roy Hornsdale

Barbara Lawrence

Marybelle Tenor

Conrad Janis

Johnny 'Johnikins' Green

Esther Dale

Grandma McSweeney

Hobart Cavanaugh

Mr. Angus MacDuff

Ann E. Todd

Joyce Fontayne
(as Ann Todd)

Hattie McDaniel

Cynthia

Gurney Bell

Off-Screen Singer
(voice)
(uncredited)

Vanessa Brown

Wanda
(uncredited)

Buddy Clark

Off-Screen Singer
(voice)
(uncredited)

Ruth Clifford

Audience Spectator at Debate
(uncredited)

Ken Darby

Off-Screen Singer
(voice)
(uncredited)

Hazel Dawn Jr.

Vi
(uncredited)

Bill Days

Off-Screen Singer
(voice)
(uncredited)

Shirley Doble

Student
(uncredited)

Director
- Henry King
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Trivia
Parts of this movie were filmed at the University of Nevada - Reno. Jeanne Crain would return there two years later for the filming of Apartment for Peggy (1948).

Goofs
The hairstyles of Jeanne Crain, Barbara Lawrence, and Lynn Bari are strictly 1946, although the story takes place in 1928.

Quotes
Grandma McSweeney: Margie, twenty years from now you'll look back at Johnny Green and you'll wonder what you ever saw in him.
Margie: Twenty years from now I'll be an old woman and it won't matter what I think.

Crazy credits
The opening credits appear as pages in a photo album with occasional annotated pasted photos of the characters from the film. A human hand flips the pages over.

Connections
References Girls' Dormitory (1936)

Soundtracks
MARGIE
Written by Benny Davis, J. Russel Robinson, Con Conrad
Performed by chorus (behind credits)

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Delightful comedy is a triumph for Jeanne Crain...

Nostalgic fluff about a 1920s schoolgirl (Jeanne Crain) with a crush on her handsome French teacher (Glenn Langan) and the trials and tribulations of growing up during the flapper age of "Flaming Youth". A charming musical delight with some lively performances from Barbara Lawrence (in her usual fast girl role), Lynn Bari, Alan Young and Conrad Janis.

Jeanne Crain was a popular star at Fox when this was made and her appeal was never more apparent than as the sweetly innocent heroine who gradually emerges as a woman unafraid of her convictions. Her beauty is the refreshing kind that looks so good in technicolor and the story is just the sort of vehicle she needed to showcase her natural charm and ability.

Tastefully photographed with some nice period music and well directed by Henry King, it became one of the most popular films of 1946. It has lost none of its charm. Well worth viewing.