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Comedy / Musical (1939) 84 minutes ~ Black & White

In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.

Director: Henry Koster

Writers: Bruce Manning (screenplay), Lionel Houser (screenplay), Henry Myers (original story), Gertrude Purcell (original story)

Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette
Transcript
00:00everyone remembers the feeling of first falling in love when you're with them
00:04nothing else seems to matter time stops but just like it can make you it can
00:10break you and this is our story my name's Jess I started surfing when I was
00:17four I'm completely hooked and so are my friends Nikki and India I don't want to
00:21listen to some guy I've grown up surfing with them and competing against them
00:26walking single file I don't want to live in self-denial ever since we were
00:32little we've all dreamed of becoming pro surfers and at the end of this year
00:36we're going to Hawaii to test ourselves on their world-famous way
00:42but Hawaii is a long way from here Phillip Island is 140 K southeast of
00:49Melbourne in Victoria there are no traffic lights and we don't even have a
00:53Mac is
01:10if I don't get my homework done then mom won't let me compete winter on the
01:15island is terrible the water's like black and it's not fun
01:20first few dive dives are the worst like just a constant pain on your brain the
01:25day it happened started just like any other day when he told me that I was
01:29gonna be out of the water for so long I was devastated
01:34I'm amazed how well she's coping if I was her I wouldn't even come outside
01:51Oh
02:02you're always affected by your first love if you fall in love with the ocean
02:07the sound the smell the stormy peaks and your pumping heart as you fall head over
02:12heels on your first attempt to catch a wave you're gone
02:20you
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