Margie is a 1946 American romantic comedy film directed by Henry King and starring Jeanne Crain, about a high school girl in the 1920s who develops a crush on her French teacher.

[7] In 1946, Margie (Jeanne Crain) is a housewife reminiscing about her high school days with her own teenage daughter, who has just discovered her mother's old photo album in the attic.

Her mother has died and her father (Hobart Cavanaugh), the local mortician, lives apart from Margie and her grandmother, only visiting on Wednesday due to his busy work schedule, and sometimes not even staying long enough to see his daughter.

By contrast, her pretty and fashionable neighbor Marybelle Tenor (Barbara Lawrence) wears short skirts and lipstick and dates the popular but dimwitted captain of the football team, Johnny Green (Conrad Janis).

When Margie meets the handsome new French teacher at her high school, Professor Ralph Fontayne (Glenn Langan), she becomes even more smitten with him, and he seems to take an interest in her as well.

In his October 17, 1946 review for The New York Times, Bosley Crowther observes: "Seeing 'Margie' is like turning back the pages of an album on a quiet Sunday afternoon.

In fact, F. Hugh Herbert, who wrote the screen play from a series of stories by Ruth McKenney and Richard Bransten, introduces the story as the reminiscences of a young matron to her jitterbug daughter during a session of rummaging through an old trunk in the attic... Margie's high school memoirs, and the crush she had on the handsome young French teacher are told with just a touch of pathos... Jeanne Crain in the title role acts and looks as fresh as a daisy, and brings just the right amount of wistfulness to her part..."[9]