The New Pictures, Oct. 28, 1946

Margie (20th Century-Fox) is good-natured spoofing of that doddering generation of oldtimers who have now reached their ripe, middle-aged 30s.

One day, while rummaging with her teen-aged daughter in the attic, Jeanne Grain, a 34-year-old mother, runs across an ancient phonograph record (Rudy Vallee's My Time Is Your Time) and a quaint old snapshot of something called a flagpole sitter. In heaven's name, mother (gasps the bobby-soxer), what was life like back in those funny, faraway times? Most of Margie is mother's flashback, Technicolor-and-music reminiscences of 1928.

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