Producer: Alex Gottlieb. In charge of production: Jack L. Warner. Copyright 22 June 1946 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. New York opening at the Strand: 14 June 1946. U.S. release: 22 June 1946. U.K. release: 10 February 1947. Australian release: 19 December 1946. 8,247 feet. 91 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Newly-weds' domestic bedlam.
NOTES: Joan Leslie replaces Joyce Reynolds in the title role in this sequel which was completed by June 1945, then shelved for a whole year.
COMMENT: Thank heavens there are no further Janie entries, just waiting to bore us silly! Agnes Christine Johnston, fresh from her "triumphs" on the Andy Hardy series has written this one solo and how any producer could have rushed into production with such a banal melange of domestic twaddle - let alone spend money on the production - defies the imagination.
The film has been quite lavishly produced too - admittedly on a moderate A-feature budget - but the direction is competent, credits are smoothly professional, but alas, the Z-grade script is a terrible waste of players like Arnold, Harding, Malone (unbecomingly costumed in a uniform and with a not terribly attractive hairdo), Benchley and McDaniel.
The only member of the cast who has any decent lines is Donald Meek -- but even he is defeated by a ridiculous turn at the climax.
SYNOPSIS: Newly-weds' domestic bedlam.
NOTES: Joan Leslie replaces Joyce Reynolds in the title role in this sequel which was completed by June 1945, then shelved for a whole year.
COMMENT: Thank heavens there are no further Janie entries, just waiting to bore us silly! Agnes Christine Johnston, fresh from her "triumphs" on the Andy Hardy series has written this one solo and how any producer could have rushed into production with such a banal melange of domestic twaddle - let alone spend money on the production - defies the imagination.
The film has been quite lavishly produced too - admittedly on a moderate A-feature budget - but the direction is competent, credits are smoothly professional, but alas, the Z-grade script is a terrible waste of players like Arnold, Harding, Malone (unbecomingly costumed in a uniform and with a not terribly attractive hairdo), Benchley and McDaniel.
The only member of the cast who has any decent lines is Donald Meek -- but even he is defeated by a ridiculous turn at the climax.