Miss Annie Rooney [Blu-ray]

Director: Edwin L. Marin Edwin L. Marin

Overview

14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular Annie Rooney, the starry-eyed, idealistic daughter of erstwhile --and impoverished--inventor Tim Rooney (William Gargan). Annie is swept off her feet by intellectual high-schooler Marty White (Dickie Moore), the son of a millionaire rubber magnate (Jonathan Hale). At first cold-shouldered by Marty's snooty friends, Annie wins them over at a party with a lively jitterbug dance (future choreographer Roland DuPree, who appears in the film as Joey, doubled for Dickie Moore in the dance sequence). It is, however, a different story with Marty's socially conscious parents, who are appalled by such riff-raff as Annie's dad and grandpop (Guy Kibbee). But circumstances change when, in true "touring stock company" fashion, Tim Rooney comes up with a new form of synthetic rubber which Mr. White simply cannot do without. In later years, Shirley Temple's co-star Dickie Moore would recall that the much-publicized scene in which he kisses Temple was extremely embarrassing for him, inasmuch as it was the first time he had ever kissed any girl; conversely, in her autobiography Temple cheekily pointed out that it most certainly wasn't her first time, and that she breezed through the scene with her customary professional aplomb.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/04/2017
UPC:	0851968007033
Original Release:	1942
Source:	Classicflix
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	1:26:00
Sales rank:	39,467

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Shirley Temple	Annie Rooney
William Gargan	Tim Rooney
Guy Kibbee	Grandpop Rooney
Dickie Moore	Marty White
Peggy Ryan	Myrtle
Roland Dupree	Joey
Jonathan Hale	Mr. White
Gloria Holden	Mrs. White
Mary Field	Mrs. Metz
George Lloyd	Burns
Jan Buckingham	Madam Sylvia
Selmer Jackson	Mr. Thomas,Mr. Thomas
June Lockhart	Stella Bainbridge
Charles Coleman	Sidney
Edgar Dearing	Policeman
Virginia Sale	Myrtle's Mother
Shirley Mills	Audrey Hollis
Noel Neill	Marty's Friend
Byron Foulger	Randall
Wilson Benge	Butler

Technical Credits

George Bruce

Edwin L. Marin	Director
George Bruce	Screenwriter
Edward Small	Producer