A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
Costume
Jeanne Crain's wardrobe: every flapper fantasy your Pinterest board wishes it was.
Cinematography
Dreamy flashback sequences that invented the 'golden hour' before it had a name.
Score
Alfred Newman score weaponizing Charleston energy for maximum nostalgia damage.
Director
Henry King
Jeanne Crain
Marjorie "Margie" MacDuff
Glenn Langan
Prof. Ralph Fontayne
Lynn Bari
Miss Isabel Palmer
Alan Young
Roy Hornsdale
Barbara Lawrence
Marybelle Tenor
Conrad Janis
Johnny "Johnikins" Green
Esther Dale
Grandma McSweeney
Hobart Cavanaugh
Mr. Angus MacDuff
Ann E. Todd
Joyce Fontayne
Hattie McDaniel
Cynthia
Vanessa Brown
Wanda (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Henry King's personal favorite of his own films—he kept a 16mm print in his home screening room until his death in 1982.
Released when actual 1920s teenagers were middle-aged, the film helped invent 'boomer nostalgia' decades early—audiences wept for their own youth they could no longer trust their memories of.
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