The Girl From Jones Beach (1949)
Directed by Peter Godfrey
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Ronald Reagan plays a George Petty-type magazine illustrator who creates a "perfect girl" from a composite of the features of several models. While relaxing at the beach, Reagan meets a lovely young schoolteacher (Virginia Mayo) who is the living image of his imaginary girl. Sensing a terrific promotional angle, Reagan ingratiates himself with the girl and attempts to secure her services for a series of cheesecake poses. The film leads to a courtroom conclusion wherein Mayo must strut around in a bathing suit to win her case. Girl from Jones Beach is worth the admission price alone just to hear Ronald Reagan pose as a Czechoslovakian immigrant--complete with accent.
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artist, beach, boarding-school, class [social], court [law], courtroom, Czechoslovakia, drawing [art], dream, dream-girl, employment, eye, fantasy, fire, girl, history, justice, love, magazine, marriage, mind, mistake, modeling, offer, pattern, perfection, promoter, publicity, reality, romance, school, schoolteacher, station, television, time, trip, TV-station, woman