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Too much of everything

Excellent but underrated film

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Nostalgic look back into the 1920s with Jeannie Crain thinking back while in the attic with her daughter 20 years later.Everyone has their eyes on the handsome new French teacher at the local high school. Glenn Langan plays the teacher, and Lynn Bari, always the schemer in the movies plays the spinster librarian out to nab him. Problem is that the script gave Miss Bari no opportunities for scheming and plotting. The devil was taken out of her.We see what the 20s was known for- parties, the Charleston, those fur coats and everyone enjoying themselves.Esther Dale does an awfully good job in the role of the liberated grandmother. However, I envisioned Ethel Barrymore for the part.Throughout the movie, you wonder who Crain eventually married and you can't wait until her husband walks up the stairs. Yes, I was still surprised, but love conquers all!

I too loved this movie. I saw it on television as a kid and fell in love with it, but always thought the movie title was April Showers... I knew Jeanne Crain starred in it. I've seen it played on classic movie channels on occasion, but not often enough. It is very nostalgic and fun loving and I think it is great for young girls to see - let them compare it with the struggles they have in finding true romance today. It also portrait a good mother/daughter relationship where they share their feelings - pretty good for not having seen the movie for about 5 or 6 years, right. I would love to buy the movie, but have never been able to find it on VHS or DVD. Does anyone know if they will ever put it out on DVD?

MARGIE is a wonderful movie that is deft blend of comedy,and romance. I consider this to be one of the best performances of Jeanne Crain during the 1940's. Miss Crain is delightful as a young, 1920's high school girl who is envious of her best friends romance with Johnnie, the coolest boy in school, and attracted by the handsome new French teacher,Mr. Ralph Fontaine who is currently romancing the school librarian,Lynn Bari. Margie has many crosses to bear in her young life. Her mother died at birth and she is being raised by her maternal grandmother and visited weekly by her mortician father. Her grandmother, who once chained herself to the gate of the White House, in support of woman's suffrage, makes her wear old-fashioned bloomers under her unfashionable clothes which the elastic is constantly breaking at the most inapropriate time-- usually in front of the french teacher. All the supporting roles are acted by first-class characters actors, but special kudos go to Alan Young as Margie's adenoidal, would-be boyfriend,Roy. At the end, of the movie, Margie is shown with her own teenage daughter, and we find out who she finally married-- cool Johnny, adenoidal Roy,or handsome Ralph. She got the one I wanted for her all along and all I can say(spoiler alert) is vive la France!

One of my favorite movies from the 1940s. Crain plays Margie with such sweet, believable, awkward conviction; her goofily repressed homelife & "bad girl" best friend & various boyfriends round out this story in an unforgettable way. The music is poignant & tuneful & perfectly suited to the storyline, the humor subtle & sly & ever-so-slightly off color, in a way that is completely inoffensive. A joy of a movie!