Nice Girl?

Nice Girl?
Universal, 1941, B/W, 96 minutes, ***
Released February, 1941

When Richard Calvert (Franchot Tone) comes to visit Jane's (Deanna) father (Robert Benchley) about his break-through research and a research grant, Jane develops a big crush on him. She manipulates him into letting her take him to the train station, and manages to arrive just late enough that he misses his train. So, what to do but drive him home? But a heavy rain keeps her from returning home before the next morning, when everyone in town notices her arrival (in her pajamas, no less) and wonders just what she's been up to! Amusing story with some good laughs. Deanna sings an incredibly heart-felt rendition of "Beneath the Lights of Home" and "The Old Folks at Home."

Producer: Joe Pasternak
Directed by: William A. Seiter
Assistant Director: Joseph A. McDonough
Screen Play: Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman
Based on the Play "Nice Girl" by Phyllis Duganne
"Old Folks At Home" Stephen Foster
"Perhaps" Music: Aldo Franchetti, Lyrics: Andres de Segurola
"Love At Last" Music: Jacques Press, Lyrics: Eddie Cherkose
"Beneath the Lights of Home," "Thank You, America" Music: Walter Jurmann, Lyrics: Bernie Grossman
Musical Director: Charles Previn
Orchestrations: Frank Skinner
Vocal Coach: Andres de Segurola
Art Direction: Jack Otterson
Associate: Martin Obzina
Set Decorations: R. A. Gausman
Gowns: Vera West
Sound Supervisor: Bernard B. Brown
Technician: Joseph Lapis
Diector of Photography: Joseph Valentine
Film Editor: Bernard W. Burton

Cast: Deanna Durbin [Jane Dana], Franchot Tone [Richard Calvert], Walter Brennan [Homer Titus, the Postman], Robert Stack [Don Webb], Robert Benchley [Oliver Dana], Helen Broderick [Cora Foster, the Housekeeper], Ann Gillis [Nancy Dana], Anne Gwynne [Sylvia Dana], Elisabeth Risdon [Martha Peasley], Nana Bryant [Mary Peasley], Additional Cast: George Billings [Pinky Greene], Tommy Kelly [Ken Atkins], Marcia Mae Jones [Girl], William B. Davidson [Bearded Man], Leonard Carey [Upton Calvert, the Butler], Selmer Jackson, Edmund MacDonald [Army Officers]

Musical Program: [0:08] Perhaps (sung by Deanna Durbin); [0:09] Someone to Care for Me (short excerpt sung by Deanna Durbin and Robert Benchley); [0:30] Beneath the Lights of Home (sung by Deanna Durbin); [0:41] The Old Folks at Home (sung by Deanna Durbin and Chorus); [0:54] Love at Last (sung by Deanna Durbin); [1:16] Beneath the Lights of Home (sung by Deanna Durbin -- beautiful!); [1:32] Thank You America (sung by Deanna Durbin and Chorus); [1:34] There'll Always Be an England (alternate ending, sung by Deanna Durbin)