Motion Picture Reviews (1940)

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MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS Eleven YOUNG PEOPLE d O Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Charlotte Greenwood, Arleen Whelan, George Montgomery, Kathleen Howard, Minor Watson, Frank Swann, Frank Sully, Mae Marsh, Sarah Edwards, Irving Bacon. Screen play by Edwin Blum and Don Ettlinger. Music and lyrics by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren. Musical direction by Alfred Newman. Directed by Allan Dwan. Produced by Harry Joe Brown. Twentieth Century-Fox. For the first time since Shirley Temple became a star she does not have to carry an entire story on her small shoulders. “Young People’’ is therefore not a top heavy vehicle for Shirley’s talents, but a pleasantly unpretentious comedy in which a trio of seasoned entertainers are featured. Jack Oakie and Charlotte Greenwood as the adopted parents of JVendy, long to retire from the vaudeville circuit to make a real home on a New England farm where they believe the little girl will grow up to be a member of a stable society. There is a good deal of hokum but also considerable pathos and humor in the story of how their ambitions work out. The interpolated songs and dances are tuneful and entertaining. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 Yes Yes SUBSCRIPTION ORDER BLANK Please Detach and Mail in with Your Subscription MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS Women's University Club 943 So. Hoover St., Los Angeles, Calif. 19 I am enclosing for subscriptions to Motion Picture Reviews at $1.00 a year each. Name Address.