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
Judy Croome Croome has also appeared on South African national television on the South African Broadcasting Corporation's Channel 2 "Morning Live" show and on South African national radio on the SAFM "Sunday Literature" programme. Croome has also had articles published in South Africa, including "The Sunday Times" (South Africa) and internationally by various on-line magazines and websites. In 2016, Croome was the external judge of the poetry section in the Writers2000(South Africa)(1985) annual writing competition. In 2011, Croome’s “The Place of the Doves” was shortlisted for the African Flash Fiction writing award. Judy Croome Judy Croome (born Judy-Ann Heinemann on 16 December