The adolescent Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) is a fashionable and spoiled teenager that lives with her tough and uptight sister Margaret Turner (Myrna Loy), who is a judge. One day, Margaret has to judge the artist Richard "Dick" Nugent (Cary Grant), who is a reckless and wolf playboy, for a fight in a nightclub and she dismiss the case. Richard leaves the court and goes to the high-school where Susan studies to give a lecture of modern arts to the students. Susan has a crush on Richard and she breaks up with her boyfriend Jerry (Johnny Sands). She interviews Richard after the lecture and during the night, she lies to the portlier of his building telling that she is going to model for Richard and she sneaks in his apartment. She sleeps on the couch and when Richard arrives home late night, he does not see her. Meanwhile, Margaret and her friend, the district attorney Tommy (Rudy Vallee), are seeking out Susan. When they find her in Richard's apartment, they believe that she has been seduced by him and Richard is sent to the jail. Margaret's uncle Beemish (Ray Collins), who is the court psychiatrist, convinces Margaret to release Richard; otherwise Susan's crush would not stop. They make a deal with Richard forcing him to date Susan to diminish her passion. Richard dislikes the situation but has no other way out of the problem. While dating Susan, Richard and Margaret fall in love with each other; but Susan is a pain in the ass for them. "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" is a dated, but delightful screwball comedy that makes you laugh a lot. Cary Grant is hilarious in the role of a playboy and wolf that is involved by an annoying teenager and sentenced based on his reputation. It is impossible to not laugh with the picnic competition and the meeting in the nightclub during the celebration of one of Richard's "acquaintances". If you need something to relieve you from a stressed day, watch this movie that you will certainly feel better in the end. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Solteirão Cobiçado" ("Desired Bachelor")

Key word: ENTERTAINING, a dirty word by today's standards where we are to be overwhelmed and impressed instead. Here, the script, the pacing, and wonderful comedic acting (another fossil of the past) all work together to produce a movie that keeps your attention and keeps you smiling. Sure, it is absurd. What farce isn't? What judge would allow a known troublemaker to date her younger sister? No, make that blackmail him into dating her? Sounds more like the plot to a film noir classic. But no. We look past it to allow for the fun. And the fun is plentiful.I heartily recommend this film to those who can let go and enjoy.

I did not know that Shirley Temple ever made any movies past puberty, so I watched this little film with great interest. What would she look like as a teenager? Was she still charming? Well, I can tell you that yes, she is still charming and cute and now womanly too, with curves in all of the right places. Nice to know that. Otherwise, the theme here which involved a teenage Shirley having a crush on an older man, seemed appropriate somehow. I mean after all, Shirley Temple the child star always seemed much more comfortable around people much older than herself than she was around her peers. So it all made sense to me. Now throw in Cary Grant as the older love interest, and I found myself smiling quite a bit. But you know, it is a silly film. I mean, its relatively intelligent, but the theme is not. And when I turned it off midway through, it looked like Cary was developing a romantic interest in Shirley's cool tempered lawyer sister rather than with Shirley herself. I guess that didn't suit me too well. I wouldn't have wanted to see her sadness when she finds this out, to see her pout and cry. Poor little Shirley Temple losing at love. And then I kind of wondered at that point if perhaps this might be a reflection on her real life relationships as well. I mean shunning your own peers in favor of adults might make finding a suitable mate difficult, in film as well as in the real world. That hunky basketball playing boyfriend in the movie wasn't all that bad, Shirley. But you elected to pursue an unrealistic love interest instead and probably got squashed down as a result! So i guess I turned the movie off because I think she deserved better. She deserves happiness. She did not make any films after 1950, so I'm figuring that once she became an adult, she put the past behind her and moved on. To a happy life as an adult now? I hope so. To see her become a tragic figure like Gary Coleman would have been too much to bear. But I think the films she made as a teen were not that popular which sort of suggests to me that others felt the same way she did. That it was time for her to move on and live a normal life. That she is still alive today makes me feel good and implies that she did find happiness as an adult. But now she is surrounded everyday with people much younger than herself, not older. Does that make you sad, Shirley? Hopefully not. I wish you well....

I enjoy watching Cary Grant may a fool of himself, he will do what it takes to make a movie funny, but the star of this movie is Myrna Loy, she was in her forties, but she look like she was only in her thirties, and still sexy. he relax way of acting was wonderful to watch, never over acting, therefore she was quite believable, throw in a seventeen year old Shirly Temple, and the other supporting cast and you have a wonderful little movie. I won't spoil it for you, but I would surely recommend this movie for a enjoyable night watching movie. The funniest part of this movie is the race, I could not stop laughing, it was stupid, but rather funny. I think anyone who like Cary Grant and the lovely Myrna Loy will love this movie.