Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

HotToastyRag Remember when Shirley Temple became a teenager and she made a few awkward films about the generation gap before rock 'n roll kicked in? A Date with Judy reminds me of one of those movies.In this one, Wallace Beery plays the out-of-touch father, and his daughter Jane Powell tries to teach him the errors of his ways. Powell sings "Love is Where You Find It", a song that Kathryn Grayson also introduced in 1948's The Kissing Bandit; will we ever know who was truly the originator? To help teach her structured father, Powell enlists the help of Carmen Miranda and Xavier Cugat. They basically play themselves.If you're not intimately familiar with the 1940s, the movie will seem incredibly dated. It's chalk-full of songs and dances, and a teenage romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Stack, but it doesn't really stand the test of time very well.

richspenc I actually give this film a 7.5, but decided to round it off to an 8.This film is almost sorta sitcom like. The scenes in the family household has not too different of traits from those clean family 1980s sitcoms. But it still has some traits of a clean family film from the late 1940s-early 1950s. This was one of Elizabeth Taylor's early films at 16 years old before she moved on to her well known more adult films such as "Butterfield 8" and "Cat on a hot tin roof". And she was good in "Father of the bride" (1950s version, not Steve Martin's 1990s version). Jane Powell was OK here, but she wasn't my favorite female character. It's not because she sings opera though. I actually really like opera, and I don't understand why so many people today hate it and always feel the need to bash it. Opera is a type of singing that represented old fashioned beauty, class, and culture, and it was in many Golden Age films. Soprano singers like Jane MacDonald and Katheryn Grayson were absolutely beautiful with wonderful voices and well loved with Golden Age film audiences. People's tastes have changed so much since those days. I like the role of Wallace Beery as dad and of Goerge Cleveland as Grandpa, even though their ages looked too close together to be father and son. They both looked post retirement age, Grandpa looking maybe just 5 years older than Beery but that was it. There was a nice little reminiscing moment with Jane playing piano and Grandpa singing "Through the years". There were some nice family moments such as a scene at the breakfast table where Beery and his wife jokingly try to decide whether to keep Jane or her younger brother. Also the witty remarks from Beery after Jane saying to him for the third time about how he needs to learn to rhumba". Then Beery debating the idea again. Then Jane saying "I just want us to be civilized", then Beery responding "if you mention the rhumba once more, I'm gonna forget that I'm civilized", but he had no menace or deep meaning behind the remark. He presented a good lovable father role. I also liked comments such as Jane saying after dumping Ogie "I just gave him up forever for a little while". I also kinda like those soda fountain moments which were always big in films from that era (Mickey and Judy Garland films were big with them too, but I liked those films even better ). I enjoyed Beery's character, and his scenes learning to rhumba with Carmen Miranda (and her hiding in the closet when Jane showed up because his learning to rhumba was supposed to be a surprise). Carmen telling Beery "stomach in, chest out, head up" while slapping each of those places on Beery reminded me of the ballet teacher that did the same thing to Red Skelton during a funny scene in "Bathing beauty", except the way she did it there to Red was harsher and more comical. Jane's character was kinda nice, but she did act sort of over the top and dumb in some scenes. I did not care too much for "I'm Strickly on the corny side" and the way she made her voice high in that last verse. I really like opera, but her high voice there was not opera sounding, it sounded more like a poor imitation of cowboy-like yodeling and it just didn't agree with me. I did like her other songs though, especially "It's a most unusual time". And I really enjoyed her and the whole rest of the family joining in on the song at her parents' anniversary dinner, and I remember watching that scene also in 1974's "That's entertainment". This was another film that ended with the big night out, and the big night out here was the anniversary dinner. It was a good ending though to a good film.

jjnxn-1 Sweet comedy, a time capsule of teen-hood in the movies in the 40's with wonderful music courtesy of Xavier Cugat and his band. Jane Powell is charmingly pert, full of youthful exuberance something she excelled at. According to her autobiography though that very spryness became a type of prison limiting her casting and when musicals declined in popularity made it impossible for her to transition to other types of pictures. Someone who certainly didn't suffer the same issue is Elizabeth Taylor, very young and very beautiful, this was one of her first roles that flirted with adulthood. The doomed Scotty Beckett, a major child star throughout his youth, plays Jane's gangly boyfriend, the unfortunately named Oogie, struggling with puberty in one of the roles attempting to ease him into adult roles. He couldn't make the leap and within the year started the long slide into trouble with the law and drug addiction that ended in his suicide two decades later at 38. In one of his last roles Wallace Beery is full of warm understanding as Jane's father in a departure from his usual bluster, he and Selena Royale at well matched as a long married couple. Lastly Carmen Miranda is a delight as always, her clothes and hats are outlandish, take special note of her shoes and wonder how she could possibly walk in them! One quibble, the Technicolor is unusually garish and at times the cast practically glows orange.

Gaterboy111 Don't watch this movie if you dislike women being dumbI strongly dislike it when a film comes out portraying girls as dumb annoying busy bodies. The girls are pretty, but the acting is terrible not to mention the dorky clothing and the annoying talking, stupid run on gags and lets just put it this way don't waste your time on such a boring dumb film. What a waist of talent. The Director good have done so much more. The shots are boring and have no imagination at all.