High School * (1940, Jane Withers, Joe Brown Jr, Lloyd Corrigan, Claire De Brey, Lynne Roberts, Paul Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 4996

Director George Nicholls Jr’s lame and unpersuasive 1940 20th Century Fox drama stars child star Jane Withers, who is now playing Jane Wallace, a difficult, rambunctious Texas ranch teenager sent by her dad (Paul Harvey) to his brother (Lloyd Corrigan)’s San Antonio high school.

She arrives there with a set of really bad attitudes, alienating everybody, but of course is totally reformed by the end of the movie, learning to get along with the other kids.

Written by Jack Jungmeyer Jr, Edith Skouras and Harold Tarshis, this is yukky, improbable, pretty naff and pathetic stuff.

Also in the cast are Joe Brown Jr, Claire De Brey, Lynne Roberts, Cliff Edwards, Lillian Porter, John Kellogg, Margaret Brayton, Marvin Stephens, Johnnie Pironne, Mary McCarty and Emma Dunn.

It is almost entirely filmed on the back lot at the 20th Century Fox Studios, 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles.

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Jane Withers, born 12 April 1926.