This movie was charmer, with some funny moments and two attractive likable leads in Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. This is one of those classics I really enjoyed when I first watched it but dragged too much when seen recently. Sometimes, the more you get used to modern movies, the more some of these classic films can seem too slow. This is an example.
Also (and I am a classic movie fan despite these comments), this film is another example of how much viewers were asked to suspend belief in these older films. Here were asked to believe that no one would suspect that a grown-up Ginger Rogers couldn't pass as a 12-year-old? One look at the very female-like Rogers and it's previous obvious she's and adult, especially at the dance near the end of the film.
Well, if you can overlook that, this is still a fun movie. Sometimes the dated dialog and attitudes of the time period make it all the more fun. Rogers was a great comedienne, not just Fred Astaire's most famous dance partner. She is the big star of this film.
There is a bit of "Lolita" mentality in here as Milland begins to fall for this "12- year-old." They never really tell you here whether Milland knew how old she was all along, however. The end the film a bit too abruptly as the two run off to get married!!!!
As I said, there are lots of holes in this story but it is entertaining enough that you don't care. Of note, too, is that Rogers' real-life mother plays her mom in this film.
Also (and I am a classic movie fan despite these comments), this film is another example of how much viewers were asked to suspend belief in these older films. Here were asked to believe that no one would suspect that a grown-up Ginger Rogers couldn't pass as a 12-year-old? One look at the very female-like Rogers and it's previous obvious she's and adult, especially at the dance near the end of the film.
Well, if you can overlook that, this is still a fun movie. Sometimes the dated dialog and attitudes of the time period make it all the more fun. Rogers was a great comedienne, not just Fred Astaire's most famous dance partner. She is the big star of this film.
There is a bit of "Lolita" mentality in here as Milland begins to fall for this "12- year-old." They never really tell you here whether Milland knew how old she was all along, however. The end the film a bit too abruptly as the two run off to get married!!!!
As I said, there are lots of holes in this story but it is entertaining enough that you don't care. Of note, too, is that Rogers' real-life mother plays her mom in this film.