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Very shortly after the picture starts Shirley, as 15 year old Corliss Archer gets herself and best friend Mildred Pringle played by Virginia Wells into hot water with their parents. Shirley was 17 at the time this was filmed and still the scene stealer and still the talented, funny and cute actress she was as a child despite those critical of her films in the 1940's and the poor treatment she was sometimes subjected too. Walter Abel who played Harry Archer (Corliss's father), was also quite funny and stole a few scenes of his own in this movie. Katharine Alexander as Janet Archer (Corliss's mother) blames the trouble the girls get into on Mildred and it begins a feud between the two families. When the two girls are forbidden to see each other, Corliss's brotherLenny tells Corliss a secret she must keep from everyone and things snowball out of control as she plots and fibs trying to keep the secret and patch things up between the families. From the start of this movie until her final film in 1949, Shirley just grew more beautiful , attractive and talented with each scene and it didn't matter if she was in raggedy pajamas and a bathrobe or stylish fashions of the time, I always felt I'd miss something if I looked away. A look, a smile or something only very talented actors( Lauren Bacall, Steve McQueen are good examples) often do to hold your attention. In her childhood films Shirley would flip another actors tie around or fiddle with a shirt collar or an object on the set somewhere. In Kiss and Tell there's a few brief scenes when she's plotting something, she chews on a bobby-pin and at one point her boyfriend Dexter yells at her to "Take that bobby-pin out of your mouth!". I also found Her mispronouncing words in some of her lines quite amusing. Overall its funny and well acted and also shows support for the military as many of Shirley's films did. Supporting cast members Jerome Courtland as Corliss's boyfriend Dexter and Darryl Hickman as Mildred's little brother Raymond were a little over the top a times but also had some good moments and added to the mischief snowballing from the feud. Even Shirley herself would later admit her films in the 1940's could have been better, but that was mostly Hollywood's fault for cheeping out and not taking better care of this amazing actress among other things. She was the best she could be in each and every one of her films and she is the reason we watched them, and still continue to watch them today, but definitely!