Dear Brat

Dear Brat

82 mins | Comedy, Romance | May 30, 1951

Mirian Wilkins, teen-age daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rahabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of the Senator, elects him to the position of honorary president. When a new gardener, Bacter, of the family turns out to be an notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins is about to fire him until his daughter point out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on her society. Further complications arise involving a fuss-budget banker, Albert, a former suitor of Miriam's older, married sister, plus some domestic misunderstandings between Baxter and his wide, and the older sister and her husband.

Dear Brat

82 mins | Comedy, Romance | May 30, 1951

Dear Brat
Mirian Wilkins, teen-age daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rahabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of the Senator, elects him to the position of honorary president. When a new gardener, Bacter, of the family turns out to be an notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins is about to fire him until his daughter point out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on her society. Further complications arise involving a fuss-budget banker, Albert, a former suitor of Miriam's older, married sister, plus some domestic misunderstandings between Baxter and his wide, and the older sister and her husband.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Paramount
Original title Dear Brat
Directors William A. Seiter
Writers Devery Freeman

Cast

Mona Freeman

as Miriam Wilkins

Billy De Wolfe

as Albert

Edward Arnold

as Senator Wilkins

Lyle Bettger

as Baxter

Mary Philips

as Edie Wilkins

Natalie Wood

as Pauline Baxter

William Reynolds

as Robbie Clark (as William Regnolds)

Frank Cady

as Parole Officer Creavy

Irene Winston

as Mrs. Baxter

Patty Lou Arden

as Clara

Mary Field

as Criminal Records Clerk (uncredited)

Elizabeth Flournoy

as Miss Pratt (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

as Laura Millikan, reporter (uncredited)

Tor Johnson

as The new gardener (uncredited)

Minerva Urecal

as Neighbor (uncredited)

Katherine Warren

as Mrs. Clark (uncredited)