Adventure in Baltimore

Adventure in Baltimore is a 1949 drama directed by Richard Wallace and starring Robert Young and Shirley Temple. Dinah Sheldon Shirley Temple is a student at an exclusive girls school who starts campaigning for womens rights. Her minister father Robert Young and her boyfriend Tom Wade John Agar do not approve.

Dinah feigns indifference to Bernice, telling Tom that her only ambition is to study art in Paris, and he agrees to help her fulfill her dream. When Dinah is arrested during a brawl in a public park, which starts after four loafers begin arguing over one of her paintings, the overworked Tom is asked to provide bail for all five. Out of gratitude, Dinah offers to write a speech for Tom on equality, which he is scheduled to deliver the next night at the Forum Societys Spring Dance. While preparing the speech, which is a modified version of one of her own debates, Dinah learns that her exit from jail was witnessed by two women, who then relayed the information to Dan Fletcher Albert Sharpe, Andrews Scottish vestryman. Dan is upset by the scandal because Andrew has just become a candidate for the new bishops post, and suggests that he punish Dinah.Instead, the less ambitious Andrew encourages Dinahs dreams by confessing that, as a youth, he had a short career as a ballroom dancer but gave it up to protect his fathers reputation. That night, Dinah shows up late at the Forum Society, and Tom is forced to read her speech cold. He is shocked to discover that her equality topic is female emancipation and is laughed at by the large crowd. ........

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