Janie
Janie is a 1944 film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on a 1942 Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel V. Williams Jr. The play was adapted from Bentham's 1940 novel by the same name.
Plot
Janie is a free-spirited teenager living in a small town. But her father, the local newspaper publisher, opposes the establishment of an army camp nearby. Janie and her bobby soxer friends are excited at the prospect of having so many young soldiers nearby. She dates one of them, which makes her boyfriend jealous.
More details
| author | Charles Hoffman |
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| director | Michael Curtiz |
| editor | Owen Marks |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | army camp bobby soxer local newspaper newspaper publisher small town young soldier |
| musicBy | Heinz Eric Roemheld |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Film Editing |
| producer | Alex Gottlieb |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| theme | romantic comedy |