Bernardine (film)
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Bernardine is a 1957 film directed by Henry Levin
Henry Levin
Henry Levin began as a stage actor and director but was most notable as an American film director of over fifty feature films. He broke into film in 1943 as a dialogue director for the films Dangerous Blondes and Appointment in Berlin for Columbia Pictures...

 and starring Pat Boone
Pat Boone
Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an American singer, actor and writer who has been a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He covered black artists' songs and sold more copies than his black counterparts...

, Terry Moore
Terry Moore (actress)
Helen Luella Koford , better known as Terry Moore, is an American actress. Terry Moore made her film debut at age 11 and grew up with all the icons of the Hollywood era that made Hollywood what it is today, also known as "The Golden Age of Hollywood". Moore is an Academy Award nominated actress...

, Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger was an Academy Award winning American film actor.-Career:Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell with Mary Astor...

, Dick Sargent
Dick Sargent
Richard Stanford Cox , known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor, notable as the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on the television series Bewitched...

, and (in her last film, after a 19-year absence) Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor was an American actress and painter.One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven , Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel...

. The 1952 play upon which the movie is based
Bernardine (play)
Bernardine is a play by Mary Chase. It premiered at the Playhouse Theatre on Broadway on October 16, 1952. It closed on February 28, 1953 after 157 performances. Actors John Kerr and Johnny Stewart won Theatre World Awards for their performances in the production. The play was later adapted into a...

 was written by Mary Coyle Chase
Mary Coyle Chase
Mary Coyle Chase was an American journalist, playwright and screenwriter, known primarily for writing the Broadway play Harvey, later adapted for film starring James Stewart...

, the Denver playwright who also wrote the smash hit Broadway play Harvey
Harvey
- People :* Harvey , a given name and family name* William Harvey, 16th century physician, first to describe circulation of blood- Places :In the United States* Harvey, Illinois* Harvey, Iowa* Harvey, Louisiana* Harvey, Michigan* Harvey, North Dakota...

. The title song, with words and music by Johnny Mercer, became a hit record for Boone.

Plot

A singing teen pairs his military-officer brother with a dream-girl telephone operator new in town.

Cast

  • Pat Boone
    Pat Boone
    Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an American singer, actor and writer who has been a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He covered black artists' songs and sold more copies than his black counterparts...

     as Arthur 'Beau' Beaumont
  • Terry Moore
    Terry Moore (actress)
    Helen Luella Koford , better known as Terry Moore, is an American actress. Terry Moore made her film debut at age 11 and grew up with all the icons of the Hollywood era that made Hollywood what it is today, also known as "The Golden Age of Hollywood". Moore is an Academy Award nominated actress...

     as Jean Cantrick
  • Janet Gaynor
    Janet Gaynor
    Janet Gaynor was an American actress and painter.One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven , Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel...

     as Mrs. Ruth Wilson
  • Dean Jagger
    Dean Jagger
    Dean Jagger was an Academy Award winning American film actor.-Career:Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell with Mary Astor...

     as J. Fullerton Weldy
  • Dick Sargent
    Dick Sargent
    Richard Stanford Cox , known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor, notable as the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on the television series Bewitched...

     as Sanford Wilson (as Richard Sargent)
  • James Drury
    James Drury
    James Child Drury, Jr. is an American actor probably best known for his success in playing the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, broadcast on NBC from 1962-1971...

     as Lt. Langley Beaumont
  • Ronnie Burns
    Ronnie Burns (actor)
    Ronald Jon "Ronnie" Burns worked briefly as a television actor, but is primarily remembered as the adopted son of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen.-Early life:...

     as Griner
  • Walter Abel
    Walter Abel
    Walter Abel was an American stage and film character actor. His eyes were brown and his height was five foot ten inches....

     as Mr. Beaumont
  • Natalie Schafer
    Natalie Schafer
    Natalie Schafer was an American actress, best known as Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on CBS's sitcom Gilligan's Island .-Early life and career:...

     as Mrs. Madge Beaumont
  • Isabel Jewell
    Isabel Jewell
    Isabel Jewell was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s.-Early life and career:...

     as Mrs. McDuff
  • Edith Angold as Hilda
  • Val Benedict as Friedelhauser
  • Emestine Wade as Cleo
  • Russ Conway
    Russ Conway (actor)
    Russ Conway was a Canadian-American character actor who appeared on film and television between 1947 and 1975.-Early years:...

     as Mr. Mason
  • Thomas Pittman as Olson
  • Jack Costanzo
    Jack Costanzo
    Jack Costanzo is an American percussionist.-Biography:A composer, conductor and drummer, Costanzo is best known as a bongo player, and is nicknamed "Mr. Bongo"...

    as Himself - Orchestra leader
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