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High School is a 1940 American teen comedy film directed by George Nicholls, Jr. and written by Jack Jungmeyer, Edith Skouras, and Harold Tarshis. The film stars Jane Withers as a spirited 13-year-old tomboy who is sent from her widowed father's ranch to learn at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas , where she alienates her fellow students with her arrogant and know-it-all personality.
High School: Directed by George Nicholls Jr., Norman Foster. With Jane Withers, Joe Brown Jr., Paul Harvey, Lloyd Corrigan. Texas ranch teenager (Withers) is sent to school in San Antonio where she learns to get along with others.
- (90)
- Action, Comedy, Music
- George Nicholls Jr., Norman Foster
- 1940-01-26
Schooled by private tutors and surrounded by cowhands on her wealthy father's ranch, Jane Wallace has grown up to be a high-spirited tomboy. Jane's father James, a widower, decides that life on the ranch without a mother is no way for a teenage girl to mature into adulthood, and so he ships her off, against her will, to the renowned Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas, where his brother, Dr. Henry Wallace, is the school principal.
High School is a 1940 American teen comedy film directed by George Nicholls, Jr. and written by Jack Jungmeyer, Edith Skouras, and Harold Tarshis. The film stars Jane Withers as a spirited 13-year-old tomboy who is sent from her widowed father's ranch to learn at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas, where she alienates her fellow students with her arrogant and know-it-all personality.
1st George Nichols Jr. When Jane actually settles down into being a student at Thomas Jefferson High School, High School does turn into a thin if enjoyable little comedy about a rough-edged freshman who gets taken down a peg or two by the city slickers she holds in so much contempt. Jane Withers toes the line between outright irritating in her ...
- George Nichols Jr.
- 20th Century Fox
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About ten years ago, the movie was screened at Jefferson High. It is very much a "B" movie. The actual interiors of the school are amazing, unlike the lame sets utilized in the film. An even lamer "B" flick, "Johnny Be Good," was also filmed at the school in the late 80s.
