Junior Miss (1945)

A young teenage girl (Peggy Ann Garner) meddles in her family's lives which leads to a series of misunderstandings that causes problems for everyone. Based on the hit Broadway play by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields (by way of the short stories by Sally Benson) and directed by George Seaton (MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET). The kind of sitcom material in the pre television days that proved popular on Broadway. JUNIOR MISS was performed by community theatres and high school productions for decades. Today, it's a relic of another era. Fresh off the success of A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (1945), Peggy Ann Garner is sweet and charming which goes a long way in overcoming the tediousness of the contrived plot though to be fair, it's not altogether unpleasant. With Mona Freeman, Allyn Joslyn, Faye Marlowe, Barbara Whiting, Mel Torme and Stephan Dunne.