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Nice Girl? is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joe Pasternak released in USA on 21 february 1941 with Deanna Durbin

Nice Girl? (1941)

Nice Girl?
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Released in USA 21 february 1941
Length 1h31
Directed by ,    ,    ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Musical theatre,    Musical
Rating65% 3.2907253.2907253.2907253.2907253.290725

Nice Girl? is a 1941 American musical film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack, and Robert Benchley. Based on the play Nice Girl? by Phyllis Duganne, the film is about a young girl finds herself attracted to one of her father's business partners who comes to town to give her father a scholarship for his dietary studies.

Synopsis

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. Professor Oliver Dana (Robert Benchley) is the head of the household. The oldest sister is Sylvia (Anne Gwynne), 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 singing the song "Perhaps" to the rabbits she takes care of. Her father is trying to write a book about diet and is testing it on rabbits. Don Webb (Robert Stack) is her boyfriend, an avid car buff.

Actors

Deanna Durbin

(Jane 'Pinky' Dana)Franchot Tone

(Richard Calvert)Walter Brennan

(Hector Titus)Robert Stack

(Don Webb)Robert Benchley

(Prof. Oliver Wendel Holmes Dana)
And :
Helen Broderick
Ann Gillis
Anne Gwynne
Elisabeth Risdon
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