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Surprisingly, Loy doesn't consider that this trouble-causing stranger might actually try to seduce the eager and enthusiastic Temple. Certainly, it is a plot inconceivable in today's society, in which a middle-aged womanizer would secretly covet the opportunity to date a teenaged beauty, while her judge sister would be more likely to get a restraining order against Grant.
Myrna Loy is 23 years older than Temple, which makes it difficult to accept Temple as her sister. This is in deference to Loy's still formidable looks, which the studio hoped to bank on for a few more years. Little mention is made of what happened to Temple's parents, although Loy refers to them (once) in the past tense.
Other characters in this eye-rolling comedy include short-fused bandleader Rudy Vallee, here appropriately cast as a huffy, obnoxious district attorney who correctly views Grant as competition for the aging but nonetheless highly attractive Myrna Loy. Veteran character actor Harry Davenport (the doctor in Gone With the Wind) plays Temple's fussbudget grandfather. The cast is rounded out with Johnny Sands, Temple's spurned but determined boyfriend, and Lillian Randolph, a black woman who (since this is 1947) plays a no nonsense maid.
How others will see it. The premise is indeed ridiculous, but the film is great fun nonetheless. Classic film fans would relish it in any event, simply because of the quality of its familiar cast. The film was also well received upon release, eventually winning an Oscar for best original screenplay. The author? Sidney Sheldon, a former Broadway playwright and a future television producer and best-seller author of potboiler novels.
How I felt about it. Other than John Wayne, perhaps no actor was more reliable at delivering box office than Cary Grant. It would be an understatement to call Grant's comic skills 'reliable.' The performance is closer to remarkable, since he is almost convincing as an innocent man continually compromised by the shenanigans of the women and rivals that orbit his tumultuous life. When Grant is left alone at the dance hall table, splashed with wine and stuck with the check, one actually feels sorry for him. No wonder that he plans to flee to Africa.
The success of The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer led to another (and better) Grant-Loy film the following year, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Grant was the master of romantic comedies, partly because of his height, poise, and distinctive diction, but mostly because no one was better at appearing ridiculous within ordinary situations.