Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.
Acting
Deanna Durbin's comedic timing sells every desperate scheme.
Score
She sings Mozart and makes it feel casually effortless.
Director
William A. Seiter
Deanna Durbin
Jane 'Pinky' Dana
Franchot Tone
Richard Calvert
Walter Brennan
Hector Titus
Robert Stack
Don Webb
Robert Benchley
Prof. Oliver Wendel Holmes Dana
Helen Broderick
Cora Foster
Ann Gillis
Nancy Dana
Anne Gwynne
Sylvia Dana
Elisabeth Risdon
Marrtha Peasley
Nana Bryant
Mary Peasley
Tommy Kelly
Ken Atkins
Marcia Mae Jones
Jane's Friend at Benefit
Leonard Carey
Riley Hill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Deanna Durbin was Universal's biggest moneymaker in the late 1930s — bigger than Abbott and Costello.
The 'nice girl' trope here directly parodies the Hays Code's obsession with female virtue on screen.
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