Deanna Durbin in THAT CERTAIN AGE (1938) - 3.
Dashing newspaper reporter Vincent Bullit (Melvyn Douglas) has just returned to New York from Spain, where he was covering a war for his boss, newspaperman Gil Fullerton (John Halliday). Unfortunately, Bullit was shot during his stay in Spain, but managed to get a fantastic story for the papers. Fullerton gives Bullit a three week vacation to relax and get well before he heads for China to write a series of public interest stories. Rather reluctantly, Bullit accepts Fullerton's offer to stay at his family's guest house in Mt. Kisco. Fullerton's teenage daughter Alice (Deanna Durbin) is outraged. She and her friends were putting on a play entitled "Lady Iris' Dilemma," the proceeds of which were going towards a Boy Scout troop's summer camp fund, and were using the guest house as a place to rehearse. Alice and her boyfriend Ken (Jackie Cooper) thus hatch a plan in order to get Bullit out. They shoot pellets at him, make lots of noise and try to scare him with a ghost story before he realizes what is going on. He tells the kids that he would much rather stay in New York City, where he could party and have fun, and so they join forces in order to get him out. Their plan entails a "sick friend" who needs Bullit by his side. A fake telephone call is arranged from a hospital informing Bullit of his friend's condition, and Alice is given the task of sending a telegram asking for his presence at the hospital. Alice, however, becomes smitten with the older man, and decides she wants him to stay. She sends a telegram saying that his friend is fine and that Bullit is not needed, which makes Bullit rather mad. When her friends ask her why Bullit has not left, she tells them that the plan simply did not work and that her parents knew what was going on the whole time. Alice is growing deeper "in love" with Bullit every day, writing it all in detail in her diary. Pretty soon, Alice feels that she has "outgrown" Ken, and drops out of the lead role in "Lady Iris' Dilemma." Hurt, he asks his little sister Butch (Juanita Quigley) to tell Alice that he is not mad at her. Butch cannot find Alice anywhere, but does find her diary which she reads and brings back to Ken. Ken reads it as well, and becomes extremely jealous of Bullit. Saddened, he decides to join the Navy. Meanwhile, Alice gets the impression that Bullit is in love with her too, not knowing that he actually has a girlfriend, Grace Bristow (Nancy Carroll) who is in Cuba. Ken returns Alice's diary to her, and wishes her the best. He also has a "man-to-man" talk with Bullit who is completely baffled, totally unaware of Alice's affections for him. He tells this to Alice's parents who try and convince Alice that it is just a phase she is going through. Alice won't listen however and remains convinced that Bullit is in love with her. Bullit and Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton hatch a plan upon Grace's return to New York. Grace poses as Bullit's wife, which makes Alice mad. She decides that he is nothing but a heel, rips up her diary, goes back to Ken and also resumes the lead role in the play.
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Deanna Durbin - THAT CERTAIN AGE - 4by ddurbinfan4,999 views
funny!! lol!
bellasong75 2 years ago
Her music teacher must have had the hardest time listening to her on those notes for this movie! That was a ball of laughs! lmao when Douglas scared her that!
bookhead92 3 years ago