A Date with Judy (film) this film. The big high school dance in Santa Barbara is coming up. Judy Foster (Jane Powell) expects boyfriend "Oogie" Pringle (Scotty Beckett) to be her escort, but he declines. Meanwhile, Oogie's sister, sophisticated senior Carol Pringle (Elizabeth Taylor), has booked famous bandleader Xavier Cugat and his orchestra for the dance. Cugat's lady friend, Rosita Cochellas (Carmen Miranda), is a dance instructor. She is secretly giving rumba lessons to Judy's dad, Melvin Foster (Wallace Beery), who wants to surprise his wife with a dance for their upcoming wedding anniversary. Soda shop owner Pop Scully (Lloyd Corrigan) introduces a disappointed Judy
The Bunch and Judy is leaving the cast of a Broadway show after 40 weeks, to marry Lord Kinlock, who is visiting America from Scotland. The cast gives Judy a farewell dinner on stage after the last performance. In Scotland, Judy is married to Kinlock, but unhappy because she is snubbed by the locals. The troupe is touring Europe. Angry at the Scots, Judy goes home with the troupe, returns to the stage and marries Gerald Lane, her former leading man. Act 1 Act 2 The Bunch and Judy The Bunch and Judy is a musical comedy in two acts with book by Anne