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Anders appears to be a prime future candidate for the psychiatrist's couch; initially withdrawn and artistic, she begins to bloom after her first date, but when things don't go her way she schemes on the side like a mischievous schizo.
Life Begins at 17 1958 1h 15m Drama List Reviews A preppie (Mark Damon) dates and charms a plain girl just to get a date with her older sister (Dorothy Johnson).
- Drama
- Mark Damon, Dorothy Johnson, Edd Byrnes
- Arthur Dreifuss
Life Begins at 17: Directed by Arthur Dreifuss. With Mark Damon, Dorothy Johnson, Edd Byrnes, Ann Doran. A rich college fraternity man tries to get a small-town beauty-contest winner to fall for him by making a play for her 16-year-old sister.
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- Drama
- Arthur Dreifuss
- 1958-07
Life Begins at 17 is a 1958 American drama film starring Dorothy Johnson, Mark Damon, Edd Byrnes and Luana Anders.
In real life, Rich college fraternity boy Russ Lippincott (Mark Damon) tries to get small-town beauty contest winner Elaine Peck (Dorothy Johnson) to fall for him by making a play for her 16-year-old sister, Carol (Luana Anders).
Recommendations. A rich college fraternity man tries to get a small-town beauty-contest winner to fall for him by making a play for her 16-year-old sister.
Popular reviews. Marketed as an lurid teensploitation flick, Life Begins at 17 is in fact an awkward, clunky, unexpectedly sensitive portrayal of how goddamn hard it is just to get through the day sometimes — for all of us.
