Miss Annie Rooney

Drama, USA, 1942, 82 min.



Annie Rooney is the precocious teenage granddaughter of a retired New York policeman, Grandpop Timothy Rooney Sr., and the daughter of Timothy Rooney, Jr., who has undertaken to rear his daughter since his wife died. Annie's romantic notions are not fulfilled by her boyfriend Joey, who is more interested in his car than in her. On their way to a friend's house for a dance one evening, Joey rear-ends Marty White Jr.'s car, and Annie is lovestruck by the suave youth's uptown manners. Marty insists on driving Annie to the party while Joey fusses with his car, and Marty is thrilled when Annie teaches him how to do the latest dance, the jitterbug. Annie spends the next few weeks dating Marty, while Joey becomes involved with Annie's best friend Myrtle. When Marty's mother throws him a birthday party, she refuses to allow him to invite Annie because she is lower- class, but Marty sends Annie an invitation anyway. Timothy Jr., a salesman who is constantly involved in inventions that fail, has invested his small savings in a scheme to turn milkweed into rubber and has quit his regular job. As they have no more money to live on, Grandpop takes a $100 loan against his pension to buy a formal dress for Annie to wear to Marty's party. There Marty's mother is appalled by her son's disobedience, and the upper-class girls snub Annie because she is "common" until, at Marty's insistence, she teaches everyone how to jitterbug. Annie only enjoys her popularity for a short time, however, because her father bursts into the party, having learned that Marty's father is president of Consolidated Rubber, and sets up a demonstration of his new investment. The demonstration is a disaster, however, and completely disrupts the party. Annie is sent home with her father in disgrace, and although Marty still cares for her, she tells him goodbye. The next day, the Rooneys' furniture is about to be taken away because Timothy Jr. used it as collateral, when Marty's father offers to hire him because he was so impressed with his salesmanship. Timothy Jr. rejects his offer because he no longer wants a regular job, but when one of Consolidated Rubber's laboratory men reports that the milkweed experiment actually worked, Timothy Jr. makes a deal with White on behalf of the inventor and secures his financial future. Security is restored to the Rooney home, and Annie is finally welcomed at the White household.
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Režie: Edwin L. Marin
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