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A Kiss for Corliss (1949)

A Kiss for Corliss poster
Directed by
Richard Wallace
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl tells a lie about a romance with an older man to impress her friends, but the story spirals out of control and leads to comic misunderstandings. The film follows the fallout as the family and the man try to contain the rumor.

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What happens

A Kiss for Corliss (retitled Almost a Bride before its release) is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Richard Wallace, written by Howard Dimsdale, and starring David Niven and Shirley Temple. The film, which was the last for both Wallace and Temple, was released on November 25, 1949, by United Artists. It is a sequel to the 1945 film Kiss and Tell, also directed by Wallace and starring Temple. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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