It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Blistering performances.

For me, "The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer" would have been a far more fun and entertaining movie to watch had its storyline focused in on giving the viewer a closer look at the teen angle in all of the "screwball" shenanigans.I found that when the action was taking place at Sunset High, amongst all the teens, that's when my interest in this truly convoluted romance (pitting 2 sisters against each other) began to pick up significantly.If you ask me, I'd say that the action-packed basketball game that took place between Sunset High and their fierce rivals was the absolute highlight of this film.Anyway - After watching this vintage picture, I certainly wish that Hollywood had actually made more teen-oriented films from that era. 'Cause, believe me - The dramas that transpired between that age group definitely showed about 10x more entertainment potential than did the dry, stale and predictable nonsense that went on between all of the bickering adults.

In this film, Shirley Temple is cast as Myrna Loy's younger teenage sister, and her responsibility since the death of their parents. Myrna Loy plays a judge and she first encounters Cary Grant, who plays a famous artist, when she has set him free after he was charged with assault and battery. He then ends up at Shirley's high school giving a lecture course, and the teenage girl becomes ( unknown to him ) very infatuated with the very handsome artist. When Loy finds out she sentences Grant to keep company with her sister until her crush for him is over. Grant and Loy eventually fall in love with each other and Shirley realizes the middle-aged Grant is more suited for her sister than for her. This 'fun and simple' comedy sounds easy, but the picture got off to a miserable start. Myrna Loy soon discovered playing Shirley Temple's older sister wasn't easy because she had to treat her rather severely on the screen. According to Loy, " You had to be careful in pictures about being to hard on dogs, children and Shirley Temple; otherwise you could really alienate audiences. Cary Grant did not like working with the younger director Irving Reis, and finally one day Grant stormed out in a huff. He went directly to producer Dore Schary and threatened to quit unless Reis was fired. Buckling to the pressure, Schary replaced Reis with himself. Temple takes her first screen drink in The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer, and the president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union protested that Shirley Temple would be doing a disservice to American youth if she drank on screen, on the the grounds she might lure unthinking teenagers to do the same thing. The studio vigorously denied that Shirley actually drank in the film, only takes a sip, makes a face and spurns the cocktail and the WCTU should be satisfied that Shirley spits out the drink. The behind the scenes adventures sound just as comical as the movie itself. Clearly this film survives because of Cary Grant's charm and meticulous sense of comedic timing along with the renewed box-office magic of a beautiful teenage Shirley Temple. Still a delightful comedy and an interesting look back to the 1940s.

A comedy that's cuter than it is funny, but it's enjoyable all the same. Cary Grant stars as a playboy painter who becomes the object of a crush by teenager Shirley Temple. Temple's older sister (Myrna Loy), a judge (a woman judge, even!) doesn't approve whatsoever. You can see where this is going from frame one. Loy's role is the film's major weakness. She feels like she doesn't belong in the film, and is generally such a wet blanket that you never want her to end up with fun-loving Grant. Not that you want him ending up with Temple, either, but his interactions with Temple are the film's highlight. Loy's role is just an excuse for the film to come up with tons of sexist jokes about how she wouldn't be so high and mighty if she'd just land herself a husband. Co-starring Rudy Vallee.

I did not know that Shirley Temple ever made any movies past puberty, so I watched this little film with great interest. What would she look like as a teenager? Was she still charming? Well, I can tell you that yes, she is still charming and cute and now womanly too, with curves in all of the right places. Nice to know that. Otherwise, the theme here which involved a teenage Shirley having a crush on an older man, seemed appropriate somehow. I mean after all, Shirley Temple the child star always seemed much more comfortable around people much older than herself than she was around her peers. So it all made sense to me. Now throw in Cary Grant as the older love interest, and I found myself smiling quite a bit. But you know, it is a silly film. I mean, its relatively intelligent, but the theme is not. And when I turned it off midway through, it looked like Cary was developing a romantic interest in Shirley's cool tempered lawyer sister rather than with Shirley herself. I guess that didn't suit me too well. I wouldn't have wanted to see her sadness when she finds this out, to see her pout and cry. Poor little Shirley Temple losing at love. And then I kind of wondered at that point if perhaps this might be a reflection on her real life relationships as well. I mean shunning your own peers in favor of adults might make finding a suitable mate difficult, in film as well as in the real world. That hunky basketball playing boyfriend in the movie wasn't all that bad, Shirley. But you elected to pursue an unrealistic love interest instead and probably got squashed down as a result! So i guess I turned the movie off because I think she deserved better. She deserves happiness. She did not make any films after 1950, so I'm figuring that once she became an adult, she put the past behind her and moved on. To a happy life as an adult now? I hope so. To see her become a tragic figure like Gary Coleman would have been too much to bear. But I think the films she made as a teen were not that popular which sort of suggests to me that others felt the same way she did. That it was time for her to move on and live a normal life. That she is still alive today makes me feel good and implies that she did find happiness as an adult. But now she is surrounded everyday with people much younger than herself, not older. Does that make you sad, Shirley? Hopefully not. I wish you well....