1947: "Boy! What a Girl!" is an underseen lively gem

by Nick Taylor

Let's recap our tried-and-true methods of investigating what early cinema has to offer for these alternate looks at supporting actreses outside of the Oscar shortlists and we do these retrospectives.

1. Combing through the canon for actressy projects
2. Checking out what the great actresses of the era were up to.

But what about option 3... the ever-reliable, deeply specific journey of stumbling onto something interesting and keeping it in your back pocket until you finally get a reason (quote-unquote) to check it out? Take, for example, my relationship with Boy! What a Girl!, which I first heard about in my senior year of college...

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