Sickly girl finds an outlet in music.Sickly girl finds an outlet in music.Sickly girl finds an outlet in music.
Carol Brannon
- Fredonia Jannings
- (as Carol Brannan)
Erville Alderson
- Dingle Clerk
- (uncredited)
Charles Bradstreet
- Stubby Stubblefield
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA rare nasty role for Spring Byington (Carrie Jannings).
- GoofsThe call letters of the radio station that broadcasts the operetta from the fictional small town in Illinois were, in 1947, really the call letters of a radio station in New York City. It's highly unlikely that an Eastern metropolis would broadcast a high school musical from a Midwestern town.
- ConnectionsFeatured in That's Entertainment! (1974)
- SoundtracksMelody Of Spring
(1947) (uncredited)
Music by Hans Engelmann
Lyrics by Ralph Freed
Performed by Elizabeth Taylor
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Sugar-coated trifle with sweet (rather than sexy) Taylor...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR's fans are really the only ones who will find any reason to watch CYNTHIA, a sugar-coated confection about a sickly girl churned out by MGM for the fast developing teen who was turning into a woman almost overnight.
Here, at fifteen, she's still got a lot of her girlish charm, exhibits a modest singing voice (is that her???), and portrays a girl who's so fragile that her parents hold her back from doing anything more strenuous than going to the corner store.
Ironically, it foretells Liz's own lifelong struggle with illness. GEORGE MURPHY and MARY ASTOR are her rather stern but loving parents and JIMMY LYDON is the boyfriend who gives Taylor her first screen kiss. S.Z. SAKALL is her encouraging music teacher.
It's all very downbeat without a sense of humor, too straightforward in the telling for its own good. Unimaginative and more of a B-film than anything else.
Here, at fifteen, she's still got a lot of her girlish charm, exhibits a modest singing voice (is that her???), and portrays a girl who's so fragile that her parents hold her back from doing anything more strenuous than going to the corner store.
Ironically, it foretells Liz's own lifelong struggle with illness. GEORGE MURPHY and MARY ASTOR are her rather stern but loving parents and JIMMY LYDON is the boyfriend who gives Taylor her first screen kiss. S.Z. SAKALL is her encouraging music teacher.
It's all very downbeat without a sense of humor, too straightforward in the telling for its own good. Unimaginative and more of a B-film than anything else.
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- Oct 6, 2006
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- Also known as
- Cynthia: The Rich, Full Life
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- $1,318,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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