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Enjoyed this film immensely.

Good acting all round.

I wish it would come round on english telly.

Made me feel very happy.

I was nine years old when I saw Kiss and Tell. I went to the morning movie and stayed until the last showing at 9:00 pm. I loved it so much that I didn't want to leave and kept saying,' wait until this part, then I'll leave.' Shirley Temple was a beautiful teenager. I remember that she had a kissing booth to help raise money for the war effort. The movie shows great community spirit in support of the soldiers that had gone off to battle. It was fun to see her go from a child to a teenager that I could identify with. Wanted to grow up and be like Shirley Temple. Would recommend this movie for family viewing! The other actors and actresses played wonderful supporting cast. Would love to see this movie out on a DVD!

Shirley Temple was just as famous for being a darling child actress as she was for "losing her touch" when she grew up. If you watch The Story of Seabiscuit or Since You Went Away, you'll agree that her acting chops weren't as good as when she was little. However, in Kiss and Tell, she's fantastic! There's absolutely nothing wrong with her acting talents in this movie, and if all her adult roles were as cute as this one, I'm sure she would have enjoyed a much longer acting career.

In Kiss and Tell, Shirley plays a mischievous teenager who constantly gets into scrapes with her best friend, Virginia Welles. The boy next door, Jerome Courtland is crazy about her, and she loves teasing him and making him jealous. In the opening scene, Shirley and Virginia are selling guest towels in a booth at a fair for soldiers on leave. Shirley gets the bright idea to sell kisses instead of towels, and their profits skyrocket! The girls' mothers aren't too happy about it, and enforce an estrangement of the two families so their kids start behaving better. But Shirley's brother and Virginia are in love-how are they going to see each other during his leave?

F. Hugh Herbert's script is quick, clever, and hilarious. Everyone does a fantastic job keeping up the pace and delivering quips that keep the audience constantly entertained. It's easy to visualize this comedy in its original Broadway play, and even though the situations are unique to the 1940s, modern audiences will still find it hilarious. If you like snappy comedies, you'll love this one. And if you're of the opinion that Shirley Temple lost her talent with age, rent this movie to change your mind!

KISS AND TELL with Shirley as Corliss Archer is the kind of family comedy rampant in the '40s and '50s--but what seemed mighty funny back then doesn't have quite the same punch today. In other words, all the material is slightly dated and the genuine laughs in the script by F. Hugh Herbert are few and far between.

Nevertheless, it's one of Shirley's most appealing performances as a teen-ager and she seems to be enjoying herself immensely. She has good support from Jerome Courtland, as an awkward neighborhood boy, and Walter Abel as her exasperated father and Katharine Alexander as his patient wife. I believe Shirley had already played Corliss Archer on radio and certainly had an affinity for this sort of role.

I recall enjoying it much more years ago. A recent viewing of the film left me much less impressed with the overall result. It seemed to be straining a bit hard for laughs and the material was very thin.

Shirley Temple is Corliss Archer, the perpetually fifteen-year-old girl whose imagination and stubbornness always gets her into trouble. Here, through a series of events, she's covering up for her secret sister-in-law, pretending to be expecting and married to boy-next-door Jerome Courtland. It's typical idiot plotting, with Walter Abel as Miss Temple's apoplectic father, Katherine Alexander as her long-suffering mother, and Robert Benchley, who pops into view to keep things bubbling for another few minutes.

I thought it was pretty racy for a Production Code movie, but it's based on a stage play that had been produced on Broadway a couple of years earlier. Corliss had been created by F. High Herbert, who turned it into quite a franchise opportunity, with movies, stage shows, the long-running radio show, a television series, and even a comic book; that ran only three issues. Miss Temple would reappear as Corliss in a second movie four years later. With Porter Hall, Darryl Hickman, Carlyle Blackwell Jr, and Daisy the Dog on loan from Blondie.