Fresh
A Date with Judy is loaded with youthful zest, making for gay, light entertainment.
Variety Staff, Variety
A Date with Judy
The best date you ever had!
1948 · 1h 53m
Comedy, Music, Romance
Directed by
Richard Thorpe
Overview
Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship with Carol's bumbling brother, Oogie, Judy suspects that her father is having an affair with a beautiful dance instructor. The two girls team up to expose Judy's father -- who is only taking innocent dance lessons.
Director and cast
- Richard Thorpe Director
- Wallace Beery as Melvin R. Foster
- Jane Powell as Judy Foster
- Elizabeth Taylor as Carol Pringle
- Carmen Miranda as Rosita Cochellas
- Xavier Cugat as Himself
- Robert Stack as Stephen Andrews
- Scotty Beckett as Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle
- Selena Royle as Mrs. Foster
- Leon Ames as Lucien T. Pringle
- Clinton Sundberg Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A Date with Judy features a song called Strictly on the Corny Side, which might serve as the movie's theme song.
TIME Magazine
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