That Hagen Girl

This is an oddity not only for the casting of future politicos Reagan and Temple in the same film, but due to its rotten script and nearly incomprehensible resolution. Reagan himself despised the experience and did all he could to get out of doing the film, this being one time he knew the movie was going to be an embarrassment before the cameras rolled. Supposedly a condemnation of rumor-mongering in small-town America, THAT HAGEN GIRL stars Temple (in her first role as a "young lady") as the adopted daughter of Peterson and Kemper. She has had to grow up as the suspected illegitimate daughter of successful young lawyer Reagan, who fled town soon after she w...