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A Date with Judy

Director: Richard Thorpe (Dir) Release Date: 29 Jul 1948 Production Date: 15 Dec 1947--27 Jan 1948 Duration (in mins): 112-13			Print this page Display Movie Summary

Cast:	Wallace Beery	(Melvin Colner Foster)
	Jane Powell	(Judy Foster)
	Elizabeth Taylor	(Carol Pringle)
	Carmen Miranda	(Rosita Conchellas)
	Xavier Cugat		and His Orchestra
	Robert Stack	(Stephen I. Andrews)
	Scotty Beckett	(Ogden "Oogie" Pringle)
	Selena Royle	(Mrs. [Dora] Foster)
	Leon Ames	(Lucien T. Pringle)
	Clinton Sundberg	(Jameson)
	George Cleveland	(Gramps)
	Lloyd Corrigan	("Pop" Sam Scully)
	Jerry Hunter	(Randolph Foster)
	Jean McLaren	(Mitzi Hoffman)
	Buddy Howard	(Jo-Jo Hoffenpepper)
	Lillian Yarbo	(Nightingale)
	Eula Guy	(Miss Clarke)
	Francis Pierlot	(Professor Green)
	Rena Lenart	(Olga)
	Sheila Stein	(Little girl in drugstore)
	Alice Kelley	(Girl)
	Polly Bailey	(Elderly woman)
	Fern Eggen	(Miss Sampson)
	Paul Bradley	(Headwaiter)

Summary:

In Santa Barbara, California, teenager Judy Foster and her friends are rehearsing songs for their high school dance when the student director of the show, Carol Pringle, complains that the songs, as performed, are too "juvenile." Carol, a senior at the school and a renowned snob, demonstrates how the music should be played, and gives the song a more seductive flavor. Later, Carol tells Judy that famous band leader Xavier Cugat will be the guest of honor at the dance, and urges her to wear her pink dress for the occasion. When Judy learns that her sweetheart, Ogden "Oogie" Pringle, who is Carol's brother, has decided not to take her to the dance, she becomes infuriated and vows to break off her friendship with him. Dejected, Judy visits Pop's Soda Fountain, where she meets Pop's handsome nephew, Stephen I. Andrews. Judy falls instantly in love with the older Stephen, and he agrees to take her to the dance as a favor to Pop. At the dance, Oogie sees Judy with Stephen and becomes jealous. While Oogie tries to divert Judy's attention away from Stephen, Stephen meets Carol and believes he has found "the most beautiful girl in Santa Barbara." After the dance, Carol tries to help Oogie and Judy get back together by telling Judy that she has convinced her wealthy father to give Judy and Oogie a program on his radio station. Meanwhile, Rosita Conchellas, a dance instructor, secretly meets with Judy's father Melvin to teach him the rumba, which he hopes to dance on his wedding anniversary. When Oogie tries to make amends with Judy at a dinner arranged by Carol, a misunderstanding arises that leads to his being further alienated from his sweetheart. Judy, however, shows no signs of a broken heart, and later tells her father that she is in love with Stephen and that she intends to marry him. When Judy discovers Rosita's skirt caught in the closet door of her father's office, she incorrectly concludes that her father is having an affair. Determined to save her parents' marriage, Judy runs home and gives her mother a beauty makeover to make her more appealing to her father. Oogie, in his tireless determination to reunite with Judy, tries to serenade her, but another misunderstanding arises and the plan is spoiled. Judy becomes convinced that her father is planning to leave her mother when she and Carol see him escorting Rosita to his car. Carol and Judy later accuse Rosita of breaking up Judy's home. Rosita misunderstands the accusation and believes that they are talking about Cugat, her fiancé. When Judy and Carol finally realize their mistake, they apologize to Rosita. Judy then reconciles with Oogie after she learns that Carol and Stephen are in love, and Stephen agrees to resume his romance with Carol in a few years, when she is older.

Production Company:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.	(Loew's Inc.)
Distribution Company:	Loew's Inc.
Director:	Richard Thorpe	(Dir)
	Jerry Bergman	(Asst dir)
Producer:	Joe Pasternak	(Prod)
Writer:	Dorothy Cooper	(Scr)
	Dorothy Kingsley	(Scr)
Photography:	Robert Surtees	(Dir of photog)
	Al Lane	(Cam op)
	Virgil Apger	(Stills)
Art Direction:	Cedric Gibbons	(Art dir)
	Paul Groesse	(Art dir)
Film Editor:	Harold F. Kress	(Film ed)
Set Decoration:	Edwin B. Willis	(Set dec)
	Richard A. Pefferle	(Assoc)
Costumes:	Helen Rose	(Women's cost)
Music:	Georgie Stoll	(Mus dir)
	Leo Arnaud	(Mus arr)
	Albert Sendrey	(Mus arr)
	Robert Franklyn	(Mus arr)
Sound:	Douglas Shearer	(Rec dir)
	Norwood Fenton	(Sd)
Special Effects:	Warren Newcombe	(Spec eff)
Dance:	Stanley Donen	(Dance dir)
Make Up:	Sydney Guilaroff	(Hair styles des by)
	Jack Dawn	(Makeup created by)
Production Misc:	Hugh Boswell	(Prod mgr)
	Mollie Kent	(Scr supv)
	Albert Hunter	(Grip)
Color Personnel:	Natalie Kalmus	(Technicolor col consultant)
	Henri Jaffa	(Assoc)
Country:	United States

Songs:	"It's a Most Unusual Day," music and lyrics Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson; "Judaline," music and lyrics by Don Raye and Gene dePaul; "I'm Strictly on the Corny Side," music by Alec Templeton, lyrics by Stella Unger; "Through the Years," music and lyrics by Vincent Youmans and Eddie Heyman; "Love Is Where You Find It," music and lyrics by Nacio Herb Brown and Earl Brent; "Home, Sweet Home," music traditional, arranged by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, lyrics by John Howard Payne; "Cooking with Glass," music by Louis Oliveira, lyrics by Ray Gilbert; "Cuanto Le Gusto," music by Gabriel Ruiz, lyrics by Ray Gilbert; "I Got a Date With Judy" and "I'm Gonna Meet My Mary," music and lyrics by William Katz and Calvin Jackson.
Composer:	Eddie Heyman
	Gene DePaul
	Harold Adamson
	Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
	Earl Brent
	Nacio Herb Brown
	Ray Gilbert
	Calvin Jackson
	William Katz
	Jimmy McHugh
	Louis Oliveira
	John Howard Payne
	Don Raye
	Gabriel Ruiz
	Alec Templeton
	Stella Unger
	Vincent Youmans
Source Text:	Based on the radio series A Date With Judy created by Aleen Leslie (24 Jun 1941--1950).
Authors:	Aleen Leslie

Copyright Claimant	Copyright Date	Copyright Number	Passed By NBR:
Loew's Inc.	29/6/1948 dd/mm/yyyy	LP1714	Yes

PCA NO:	13038
Physical Properties:	col:	Technicolor
	Sd:	Western Electric Sound System


Genre:	Musical
Sub-Genre:	Teenage

Subjects (Major):	Family life
	High school students
	Jealousy
	Maturation
	Romance
	Singers

Subjects (Minor):	African Americans
	Age
	Battle of the sexes
	Butlers
	Canneries
	Dance teachers
	Dances
	False accusations
	Friendship
	Maids
	Musicians
	Proms
	Radio programs
	Reconciliation
	Santa Barbara (CA)
	Snobs and snobbishness
	Soda fountains
	Rumba (Dance)

Note:	Although Xavier Cugat is credited in the opening credits as "Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra," the end credits simply bill Cugat as "Himself." The A Date with Judy radio show ran from 1941 to 1949 on the NBC network, and from 1949 to 1950 on the ABC network. The character of "Judy Foster" was portrayed on the radio by Dellie Ellis, Louise Erickson and Ann Gillis. Pre-production news items in HR indicate that actor Thomas E. Breen was originally set to co-star in the film with Jane Powell, and that Leslie Kardos was set to direct. A Dec 1947 HR news item notes that Selena Royle replaced Mary Astor, who withdrew from the film due to illness. A contemporary HR news item lists Marcia Van Dyke in the cast, but her appearance in the released film has not been confirmed. A biography of director Vincente Minnelli notes that a musical number entitled "Mulligatawny," which was created by Stanley Donen, was cut from the film before its release. Actress Patricia Crowley portrayed "Judy Foster" in the ABC television series A Date with Judy , which ran from 1951 to 1953.

Bibliographic Sources:	Date	Page
Box Office	26 Jun 1948.
Daily Variety	18 Jun 48	p. 3, 8
Film Daily	21 Jun 48	p. 6.
Hollywood Reporter	19 Sep 46	p. 3.
Hollywood Reporter	13 Aug 47	p. 2.
Hollywood Reporter	9 Dec 47	p. 8.
Hollywood Reporter	11 Dec 47	p. 11.
Hollywood Reporter	19 Dec 47	p. 14.
Hollywood Reporter	27 Jan 48	p. 13.
Hollywood Reporter	18 Jun 48	p. 3.
Motion Picture Herald Product Digest	24 Apr 48	p. 4139.
Motion Picture Herald Product Digest	19 Jun 48	p. 4206.
New York Times	7 Aug 48	p. 8.
Variety	23 Jun 48	p. 6.

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