Nice girl

Nice Girl? is a 1941 musical film about a girl and her two sisters. She is the nice girl of the family, but when Richard Calvert Franchot Tone comes into town to give her father a scholarship for his dietary studies, she finds her opportunity to get some scandal in her life. It stars Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Robert Stack and Walter Brennan. The musical starts with the busybody postman who reads everybody’s mail, Hector , delivering mail to the Dana household and particularly to Cora , the maid who he is in love with. Professor Oliver Dana is the head of the household. The oldest... sister is Sylvia , an actress, and the youngest is Nancy , who is a bit of a flirt and has all the boys fighting over her. The middle sister Jane , the “nice girl”, makes her entry singing the song “Perhaps” to the rabbits she takes care of. Her father is trying to write a book about diet and is testing it on rabbits. Don Webb is her boyfriend, an avid car buff. One day, Richard Calvert visits the Danas to study what Professor Dana is practicing with the rabbits.
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