Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 3, 1951

Too Young to Kiss (MGM) starts inauspiciously by presenting Van Johnson as the stereotype of a famed concert impresario who reigns, suave and multilingual, over plush offices swarming with international artistes. But this bobby-soxer's S. Hurok quickly becomes the butt of a pleasant little comedy by the scripting team (Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett) of Father of the Bride.

Unable to get a hearing from the impresario, Pianist June Allyson schemes to catch his ear by crashing a children's audition as a 13-year-old, baring her dental braces in a demure smile. Johnson rises...

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