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
Judge Judy mid-rank of the 159 syndicated shows on the air. At that time, it was never expected that the show's ratings would ever compete with highly successful daytime TV shows of the time, such as "The Oprah Winfrey Show", "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and "The Jerry Springer Show". According to "Biography"s documentary film on Sheindlin, "Judge Judy: Sitting in Judgment" (aired February 21, 2000), producers of "Judge Judy" were disappointed that the show was barely making it on the radar. However, it did not take long for the court show to pick up momentum as "Judge Judy" rose to a 2.1