A writer of screenplays struggling with his latest script is approached by the police to look after a 17 year delinquent girl to keep her out of prison over Christmas and be the basis of his next screenplay. This is frothy entertaining farce and romance. The plot is silly, but that is typical of this type of film from the 1950's. It is gentle, clean, entertainment. Debbie Reynolds is good in the lead, although she was 22 rather than 17 and far too elegant for someone living on the streets. That said her dramatic and comic performance are very good. Dick Powell does not quite fit the role, but there are good supporting performances from Anne Francis as the woamn he should have married and Glenda Farrell as his secretary. There are a couple of good scenes, notably using an Oscar as a nut cracker and the dream sequence with Debbie Reynolds in a bird Cage.
Dick Powell
Debbie Reynolds
Anne Francis
Glenda Farrell
Les Tremayne
3/5