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
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.