Nice Girl? is a 1941 musical film about a girl and her two sisters. She is the nice girl of the family, but when Richard Calvert Franchot Tone comes into town to give her father a scholarship for his dietary studies, she finds her opportunity to get some scandal in her life. It stars Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Robert Stack and Walter Brennan.
The musical starts with the busybody postman who reads everybody’s mail, Hector (Walter Brennan), deli...
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Nice Girl? is a 1941 musical film about a girl and her two sisters. She is the nice girl of the family, but when Richard Calvert Franchot Tone comes into town to give her father a scholarship for his dietary studies, she finds her opportunity to get some scandal in her life. It stars Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Robert Stack and Walter Brennan.
The musical starts with the busybody postman who reads everybody’s mail, Hector (Walter Brennan), delivering mail to the Dana household and particularly to Cora (Helen Broderick), the maid who he is in love with. Oliver Dana (Robert Benchley) is the head of the household, a professor. The oldest sister Sylvia (Anne Gwynne) is an actress, and the youngest is Nancy (Ann Gillis), who is a bit of a flirt and has all the boys fighting over her. The middle sister Jane (Deanna Durbin), the “nice girl” makes her entry with her singing the song, “Perhaps,” to the rabbits that she takes care of. Her father is trying to write a book about diet and is...
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