Good News

Good News

93 mins | Comedy, Romance | Dec. 4, 1947

At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.

Good News

93 mins | Comedy, Romance | Dec. 4, 1947

Good News
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Good News
Directors Eylla Jacobs, Charles Walters
Writers Ray Henderson, Frank Mandel, Laurence Schwab, Betty Comden, Lew Brown, Buddy G. DeSylva, Adolph Green

Cast

June Allyson

as Connie Lane

Peter Lawford

as Tommy Marlowe

Patricia Marshall

as Pat McClellan

Joan McCracken

as Babe Doolittle

Ray McDonald

as Bobby Turner

Mel Tormé

as Danny

Robert E. Strickland

as Peter Van Dyne III

Donald MacBride

as Coach Johnson

Tom Dugan

as Pooch

Clinton Sundberg

as Professor Kennyon

Loren Tindall

as Beef

Morris Ankrum

as Dean Griswold

Georgia Lee

as Flo

Jane Green

as Mrs. Drexel

Sarah Edwards

as Miss Pritchard (uncredited)

Jimmy Lydon

as Jimmy's Classmate (uncredited)

Tommy Rall

as Dancer (uncredited)

Mary Stuart

as Flossie (uncredited)