Director: Jerry Hopper
Genres: Romance
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Toy Tiger was a remake of the 1938 Deanna_Durbin film Mad_About_Music. The adolescent girl of the original becomes a preteen boy in the remake, played with an excess of the cutes by Tim_Hovey. A student in a private school, Hovey brags to his classmates about the accomplishments of his father. Actually the boy's dad has been dead for years, thus he's up against it when challenged to produce his fictional papa. Jeff_Chandler, businessman friend of Hovey's widowed mother (Laraine_Day), is coerced into posing as the boy's father. The "see it coming" ending was at least compensated for in Mad_About_Music by Deanna Durbin's singing. The banality of Toy Tiger is made bearable only by the gritty performance of Jeff Chandler, who lets us know that he knows he's better than his material. Hal Erickson, Rovi


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