Janie (1944 film)
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Screenplay by | Charles Hoffman Agnes Christine Johnston |
| Based on | Janie (1942 play) by Josephine Bentham Herschel V. Williams Jr. |
| Produced by | Alex Gottlieb |
| Starring | Joyce Reynolds Robert Hutton |
| Narrated by | Alex Gottlieb |
| Cinematography | Carl E. Guthrie |
| Edited by | Owen Marks |
| Music by | Heinz Roemheld |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Janie is a 1944 film directed by Michael Curtiz based on a 1942 Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel V. Williams Jr.[1] The play was adapted from Benthams's 1940 novel by the same name.
Plot
Janie is a free-spirited teenage girl living in a small town. World War II brings the establishment of an army camp nearby, which is opposed by her father, the local newspaper publisher. Janie and her bobby soxer friends have their hearts set afire by the prospect of so many young soldiers so close. She enjoys dating an Army man, which makes her younger local boyfriend jealous.
Cast
- Joyce Reynolds as Janie Conway
- Robert Hutton as Pfc. Dick Lawrence
- Edward Arnold as Charles Conway
- Ann Harding as Lucille Conway
- Alan Hale as Professor Reardon
- Robert Benchley as John Van Brunt
- Clare Foley as Elsbeth Conway
- Barbara Brown as Thelma Lawrence
- Hattie McDaniel as April
- Richard Erdman as Scooper Nolan
- Jackie Moran as Mickey the Sailor
- Ann Gillis as Paula Rainey
- Russell Hicks as Colonel Lucas
- Ruth Tobey as Bernadine Dodd
- Virginia Patton as Carrie Lou
- Colleen Townsend as Hortense Bennett
- William Frambes as Private Hackett
Unbilled players include Keefe Brasselle, Jimmie Dodd, Sunset Carson, Julie London, Virginia Sale, The Williams Brothers with Andy Williams.
Reception
Bosley Crowther, critic for The New York Times, panned the film, writing, "The authors of 'Janie', play and picture, have simply cut a theatrical farce with some kids. And the bluntness with which they have done so provides very little warm appeal"; and: "The performance of Joyce Reynolds in the title role is completely surface and pretentious; she had nothing with which to work".[1]
The film was followed two years later by a sequel, Janie Gets Married.
See also
References
External links
- Janie at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Janie at IMDb
- Janie at the TCM Movie Database
- Janie at AllMovie
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- 1944 films
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- American black-and-white films
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- American films based on plays
- Films directed by Michael Curtiz
- Films set on the home front during World War II
- Warner Bros. films
- Films scored by Heinz Roemheld
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s American films
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