Summary
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
Skip it if
- You want dark or edgy material
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 70GoodWatch 68
Audience score72%
IMDb6.8
Running time
1 h 15 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 family movies, −20 min on the typical 95
typical 9575Half of all family movies run 88–106 min.
Reach
Streams in 4 countries, rent or buy in 25 more
Released
1935
July 26, 1935
91 years ago
Genres
FamilyMusicComedyLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
and 7 moreDirecting · 1
- Irving Cummings Director
Writing · 2
- Patterson McNutt Screenplay
- Arthur J. Beckhard Screenplay
Camera · 1
- John F. Seitz Director of Photography
Other crew · 1
- Marilyn Granas Stand In
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