I've come to you Anthony, hat in hand, to offer a sincere mea culpa.
I haven't seen this movie in about 25 years (owing to my very real "issues" with a post Oscar Ginger) and didn't really care for it all that much at the time.
A gorgeously restored version (I assume it's the blu-ray master)...
Hahahah. I DO agree with you that Ginger's screen persona is delightful throughout the entirety of the 1930's, including her Berkeley films, the Fred Astaire films and, of course, in STAGE DOOR, VIVACIOUS LADY, and BACHELOR MOTHER. But you'll have to send me to the firing squad for the...
If memory serves, she played "little girl" for the first time in a KITTY FOYLE flashback scene and must have fallen in love with her own portrayal because that schtick does come up quite a lot after that. Isn't there a similar scene between she and the dishy Robert Ryan in TENDER COMRADE where...