One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)

Deanna Durbin's primarily a singer, so building a film around her acting doesn't really work. I wouldn't be up for a film that employed her solely as a singer either -- but that's neither here nor there.

She's the whole show here -- cast as a controlling yet adorable (supposedly) young girl scheming to get her father and a group of his fellow unemployed musicians working again. I just got tired of the same manic "youdon'tunderstandthough--" "butyouhaveto--" "justlistenI'm--" back and forths. The adults don't listen to her and she doesn't listen to them and, despite what the screenwriters apparently believed, interruption isn't the same thing as banter.

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