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Touches You

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Admirable film.

Absolutely delightful. Taking full advantage of a smoothly and wittily characterized script, director Bill Seiter and his talented players hit high notes of rollicking entertainment almost continually until the forced and somewhat strained ending changes the film's mood as well as its locale. Never mind, so much of what has transpired before is so attractively amusing, the Bromberg machinations don't really matter. Young as usual is most ingratiating, playing with just the right balance of rakishness, sophistication and boyish charm. Miss Temple gets a chance to practice her Chinese as well as to perform the movie's show-stopping "If You Want To S-M-I-L-E", complete with vigorous impersonations of Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, and Astaire-Rogers! Miss Faye never looked more lovely, and renders two of her most famous songs. The script has also provided meaty roles for Helen Westley, Arthur Treacher and Robert Greig. Production values are high, with superb cinematography, sets and costumes. In short, pretty close to superlative entertainment.

I have a fond recollection of Shirley Temple movies because when I was in grammar school during the Fifties, the classrooms would be brought to the auditorium once or twice a year to watch one of them. I think we had to pay a quarter to see them, one of the ways the school managed to generate a little income back in the day. It's impossible now to remember which ones they might have been, but as I think about it now, the movies would have already been about twenty years old even way back then! Time is a funny thing.This Shirley Temple picture is particularly delightful, with young Barbara 'Ching-Ching' Sherman (Temple) playing matchmaker for co-stars Robert Young and Alice Faye. Their relationship is jeopardized right from the start as Susan Parker (Faye) is engaged to businessman Richard Hope (Allan Lane), as playboy Tommy Randall's (Young) heart and demeanor does flip-flops in his attempt to woo Miss Parker. Ultimately it becomes a no-contest as Richard's domineering mother overshadows the relationship, and Miss Parker sorts out her feelings over the course of the story.Young Shirley's charisma as a child entertainer shines through in a variety of song numbers, particularly in her rendition of 'You Gotta S-M-I-L-E' during a Chinese talent contest. She then does an effective imitation of Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, right before shuffling into a dance routine with a Shirley-sized mannequin. If you want to be critical, you'd have to wonder why the theater operator would have had one of those around for Ching-Ching's convenience. You know, they never did say if she won the ten yuan prize, but since there were no other performers, I guess it's a safe bet.The picture offers a humorous sequence in which Young's character walks out of a Shanghai shop with a young Chinese boy by accident instead of Shirley. The authorities are brought into the picture and both Randall and Ching-Ching spend the night in jail! Which led me to reflect on one of Ching-Ching's Chinese proverbs from her mentor Sun Lo quoted in my summary line above. If you expand the meaning of prisoners to include someone stuck in an unsuccessful marriage or relationship, you have a pretty good description of why little matchmaker Ching-Ching had to bring her Uncle Tommy and Aunt Susan together.

Well, Shirley Temple is in Shanghai for this feel-good musical-drama-romance. She is an inadvertent stowaway in this story and even speaks in Chinese quite a bit. In addition she relates a few profound and touching Chinese sayings and does a cute song on stage on the boat.Looking after her are the adults leads: Robert Young (who looks very young in here) and Alice Faye. Also fun to see, speaking of young, is Arthur Treacher, who has some funny lines. There is not a lot of funny material in here but it's a nice film and definite good addition to any Shirley Temple collection. I also saw a colorized edition of this, and they it was one of the better jobs in that regard. It hasn't been issued on DVD yet, but I assume it will since most of films are out on that format by now.

Shirley Temple, Robert Young, and Alice Faye star in this wonderful family film. Shirley Temple plays Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching, a lovable child who befriends Tommy Randall (Robert Young) in China. Both end up on a ship going to the United States. There they both meet Susan Parker (Alice Faye, in a brilliant performance). If you like Shirley Temple films and haven't seen this one you definitely should. Shirley was always great in her films and this one is no exception.