Junior Miss (film)

Junior Miss
Film poster
Directed byGeorge Seaton
Written bySally Benson (novel)
Joseph Fields (play)
Jerome Chodorov (play)
George Seaton
Produced byWilliam Perlberg
StarringPeggy Ann Garner
Allyn Joslyn
CinematographyCharles G. Clarke
Edited byRobert Simpson
Music byDavid Buttolph
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • June 16, 1945 (1945-06-16)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,750,000[1]

Junior Miss is a 1945 American comedy film starring Peggy Ann Garner as a teenager who meddles in people's love lives.

A collection of Sally Benson's stories from The New Yorker was published by Random House as Junior Miss in 1941. This was adapted by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields into a successful play that same year.[2] Directed by Moss Hart, Junior Miss ran on Broadway from 1941 to 1943. In 1945, the play was adapted to the film Junior Miss with George Seaton directing Peggy Ann Garner in the lead role of Judy Graves. Junior Miss was adapted as a radio series three times in the late 1940s and early ‘50s, first with Shirley Temple and later with Barbara Whiting performing the lead role.[3]

  1. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 221
  2. ^ "New Play in Manhattan", Time, December 1, 1941.
  3. ^ Dunning, John (1998). "Junior Miss". On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2024-11-07.