Miss Annie Rooney

Miss Annie Rooney is a 1942 American drama directed by Edwin L. Marin. The screenplay by George Bruce has some similarities to the silent film, Little Annie Rooney starring Mary Pickford, but otherwise the films are unrelated. Miss Annie Rooney is about a teenager Shirley Temple from a humble background who falls in love with a rich high school boy Dickie Moore. She is snubbed by his social set, but, when her father William Gargan invents a better rubber synthetic substitute, her prestige rises. Notable as the film in which Shirley Temple received her first screen kiss and Moore said it was his first kiss ever The film was panned.

Temple signed to make one film for United Artists and it was to be either Little Annie Rooney or Lucky Sixpence. It was eventually decided to film the former. The title was changed to Miss Annie Rooney to reflect Temples maturity she was paid 50,000 for her performance.Temple waswhen the film was made and received a much ballyhooed onscreen kiss from Moore, on the left cheek. ........

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