This is the second film based on the popular comic strip that ran from 1919 to 1959. The 1928 film starred Arthur Lake as Harold. Warners updated the characters and added several songs for this musical version starring Hal Le Roy, who's just about perfect as the lanky teenager.
The comic strip famously lampooned teenagers and all their silly fads and lingo over the years. This film has Harold working as a cub reporter and getting involved with Lillum's high school graduation, and the "big show" the banker's daughter Mimi is putting on.
Rochelle Hudson plays the silky Lillums and Patricia Ellis plays the snappy Mimi. We also get Chick Chandler as wisecracking Lilacs and Eddie Tamblyn as the shy Shadow. Among the adults, there's Hobart Cavanaugh as Pop, Guy Kibbee and Clara Blandick as the Lovewells, Douglass Dumbrille as the banker, Hugh Herbert as Rathburn, Richard Carle as the high school principal, Charles Wilson as the newspaper editor, and Mayo Methot as the newspaper secretary. Jane Wyman is among the high school throng ... if you can spot her.
This was probably meant to be a series, but it didn't happen. Fun all along the way and we the Hal Le Roy's big dance number as a finale.
The comic strip famously lampooned teenagers and all their silly fads and lingo over the years. This film has Harold working as a cub reporter and getting involved with Lillum's high school graduation, and the "big show" the banker's daughter Mimi is putting on.
Rochelle Hudson plays the silky Lillums and Patricia Ellis plays the snappy Mimi. We also get Chick Chandler as wisecracking Lilacs and Eddie Tamblyn as the shy Shadow. Among the adults, there's Hobart Cavanaugh as Pop, Guy Kibbee and Clara Blandick as the Lovewells, Douglass Dumbrille as the banker, Hugh Herbert as Rathburn, Richard Carle as the high school principal, Charles Wilson as the newspaper editor, and Mayo Methot as the newspaper secretary. Jane Wyman is among the high school throng ... if you can spot her.
This was probably meant to be a series, but it didn't happen. Fun all along the way and we the Hal Le Roy's big dance number as a finale.