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Obliging Young Lady (1942)

• Director
  • Richard Wallace
• Writers
  • Frank Ryan(screen play)
  • Bert Granet(screen play)
  • Arthur T. Horman(story)
• Stars
  • Joan Carroll
  • Edmond O'Brien
  • Ruth Warrick

  The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget Potter. Little Bridget has been willingly "kidnapped" by secretary Linda Norton (Ruth Warrick), who hopes that the girl's disappearance will precipitate a reunion between Bridget's divorcing parents (John Miljan, Marjorie Gateson). Instead, Linda's well-intentioned crime results in a film-length slapstick chase, largely involving two rival newspaper reporters (Eve Arden and Edmond O'Brien). Obliging Young Lady was directed by Richard Wallace, who as a former employee of Hal Roach Studios was well-grounded in this sort of frenetic farce.