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That Hagen Girl (1947)

That Hagen Girl poster
Directed by
Peter Godfrey
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 23m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Gossip in a small town makes life hard for a teenage girl. People think she is the illegitimate daughter of a lawyer who used to live there.

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What happens

That Hagen Girl is a 1947 American drama film directed by Peter Godfrey. The screenplay by Charles Hoffman was based on the novel by Edith Kneipple Roberts. The film focuses on small-town teenaged girl Mary Hagen (Shirley Temple), whom gossips believe is the illegitimate daughter of former resident and lawyer Tom Bates (Ronald Reagan). Lois Maxwell received a Golden Globe award for her performance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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