Want to brush up on your 1940’s slang and see some good-old jitterbugging? Miss Annie Rooney is a Shirley Temple movie that came out in 1942, the year she turned 14. She plays a starry-eyed girl looking for some romance, but the official description from IMBD says: A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn’t have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
Billed as Shirley Temple’s first glamorous role, first romance, and first kiss (!) it’s a fun film, quite different from a modern teen movie, that’s for sure. Here is the b&w movie trailer and below it a link to the colorized movie.
When I was a little girl, there was a Shirley Temple movie on TV every week, but I don’t remember this one. Thanks for the memory, though.
And I always liked to get a Shirley Temple drink when I was little. It was a special treat.