Directed by:
Richard WallaceCinematography:
Charles Lawton Jr.Composer:
Werner R. HeymannCast:
Shirley Temple, Jerome Courtland, Walter Abel, Katharine Alexander, Robert Benchley, Virginia Welles, Tom Tully, Darryl Hickman, Darren McGavin, Frank Darien (more)Plots(1)
If there were any doubts that little Shirley Temple was all grown up by 1945, those doubts were disippated by her appearance in Columbia's Kiss and Tell. Based on the mildly risque stage comedy by F. Hugh Herbert, the film casts Temple as impulsive teenager Corliss Archer, who is the only person in on the secret marriage between her GI brother and local girl Mildred Pringle (Virginia Welles). When Mildred becomes pregnant, Corliss can't reveal the marriage, since the Archers and the Pringles aren't overly fond of one another. Thus it is that Corliss herself pretends to be expecting, intending to claim Mildred's baby as her own. She further identifies her next-door boyfriend Dexter Franklin (Jerome Courtland) as the father, opening yet another can of worms. Somehow this mess straightens itself out, but not before several "chancy" scenes and lines of dialogue that must have given the Hollywood censors headaches aplenty. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Shirley Temple
USA
Best movies:
I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
Heidi (1937)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Jerome Courtland
USA
Best movies:
Battleground (1949)
The Man from Colorado (1948)
The Walking Hills (1949)
Walter Abel
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
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Katharine Alexander
USA
Best movies:
Double Wedding (1937)
Stage Door (1937)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Robert Benchley
USA
Best movies:
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
China Seas (1935)
Virginia Welles
USA
Best movies:
To Each His Own (1946)
Tom Tully
USA
Best movies:
Ten North Frederick (1958)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
The Moon Is Blue (1953)
Darryl Hickman
USA
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Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Network (1976)
Darren McGavin
USA
Best movies:
One Man Mutiny (1955)
The Natural (1984)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Frank Darien
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Porter Hall
USA
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Double Indemnity (1944)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Isabel Withers
USA
Best movies:
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
To Each His Own (1946)
Jessie Arnold
USA
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It Happened One Night (1934)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Kathryn Card
USA
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Born to Kill (1947)
Scandal Sheet (1952)
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Bernard Sell
UK
Best movies:
The Sound of Music (1965)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Storm Warning (1951)
George Bruggeman
Belgium
Best movies:
The Graduate (1967)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Gene Garrick
USA
Best movies:
Saboteur (1942)
Battleground (1949)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Mary Philips
USA
Best movies:
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
That Certain Woman (1937)