Powell, Jane and her friends bike to Pomona. Deciding to leave immediately to avoid Mrs. Challenged by Jack to prove her claim, Jane sings a song from her latest film and the children realize that she is telling the truth. When Jack and the others refuse to believe her and accuse her of lying, Jane bursts into tears, and deciding to return home, phones her mother. Trying to win back her friends, Jane reveals that she is Jane Powell. Bill and Jack are both angry at Jane's meddling, and consequently, when all the bicycles crumple due to Jane's repairs, she is ostracized by the entire group. Jane fails to reach Bill before the youngsters leave for the fields, however, and her plan backfires when Bonnie sees Jack kiss Peggy and becomes furious. Bill has gone to reason with Bonnie, and Jane promises to find him and disclose her new plan. Overhearing their conversation, Jane suggests that Jack make Bonnie jealous by flirting with Bill's girl friend Peggy. Jack's friend Bill then volunteers to intercede with Bonnie on Jack's behalf. That night, Jack, who is a member of a farming family, proposes to Bonnie, who rejects him, claiming that the life of a farmer is too hard. At the hostel, the youngsters return from the fields to find Jane covered with grease and the pump completely broken, prompting Jack to lecture Jane that she should not volunteer for tasks she is incapable of performing. When the girl's tutor, Miss Caspar, confides to Connors her concern that Jane is being deprived of her childhood by her demanding mother, the two conspire to prevent Mrs. Powell, alarmed at her daughter's absence, enlists Connors, a representative of the American Youth Hostels, to help find Jane. Anxious to please, Jane volunteers to repair the bicycles and the water pump, although she possesses no mechanical ability. At the hostel there, Jane introduces herself as "Jane Price" and is greeted by Jack Moran, who makes the daily assignments, and his girl friend Bonnie. Jane cuts her long blonde locks, dies her hair brown and hitches a ride with her bicycle to Salinas. After accusing her mother of failing to understand her needs, Jane decides to run away and join her friends in Salinas. Soon after, Jane wins the lead in a new picture, and her mother cancels the long-awaited vacation she has promised her daughter. When Jane's domineering mother dismisses the youngsters, they peddle away on their bicycles and Jane feels lonely and forlorn. After Jane finishes her scene, she tries to leave with her newfound friends, but her chores with the still photographer keep her behind. The members of the corps are on their way to Salinas to pick crops when Jane invites them to watch her filming her latest feature. In appreciation for starring in a commercial promoting the United States Crops Corps, a brigade of teenagers that travel California by bicycle picking crops, teenage movie star Jane Powell is presented with a membership card to the American Youth Hostels, a chain of residences that shelter the itinerant pickers.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |