Sweater Girl (film)

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Sweater Girl is a 1942 American mystery and comedy film written by Robert Blees and Beulah Marie Dix, directed by William Clemens and starring Eddie Bracken, June Preisser, Phillip Terry, and Betty Jane Rhodes.^[1][2] It was released on July 13, 1942.

The film marked the debut of the classic World War II-era wartime song, "I Don't Want To Walk Without You".^[2] The song was performed on screen by actress Betty Jane Rhodes.^[2]

While preparing for Midvale College's upcoming revue, which includes a trick shot with a gun, singer Susan Lawrence develops a romantic interest in Jack Mitchell, who also sings, while their friend Louise Menard is seeing Susan's brother, a professor. All are shocked when songwriter Johnny Arnold is strangled and school reporter Miles Tucker poisoned with the glue from an envelope.

A detective named McGill begins an investigation. One night Jack volunteers to look after Louise's mother, a helpless invalid. Susan becomes worried and, when she arrives, Mrs. Menard is trying to help Jack, who has narrowly avoided being killed.

With help from Louise's father, a professor, McGill deduces that Mrs. Menard is holding a grudge from a previous child's death, which she blames on an initiation rite at the school. She has also secretly exchanged Susan's trick gun with a loaded one, which she uses in the show. Everyone arrives too late, but luckily, Susan's aim is bad, Jack survives and all live happily ever after.

• Eddie Bracken as Jack Mitchell
• Betty Jane Rhodes as Louise Menard
• June Preisser as Susan Lawrence
• Frieda Inescort as Mrs. Menard
• Charles D. Brown as Lt. McGill
• Kenneth Howell as Miles Tucker
• Johnnie Johnston as Johnny Arnold
• Nils Asther as Prof. Menard
• Phillip Terry as Prof. Martin Lawrence

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