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Books -- A Fan's Notes , by Frederick Exley, and Misfit: The Strange Life of Frederick Exley , by Jonathan Yardley;
I was thinking what a good job he was doing of playing up to his image as a brooding misfit when a bathroom door opened next to him and a 3-year-old girl walked out and jumped into his arms.
The movie, directed by Michael Corrente from a script he wrote with the Farrellys, is not in the whacking, gross-out school of the brothers' other projects, but it shares with them a tender regard for the scruffy outsider, the yearning misfit.
At MGM, Louis B. Mayer produced the bourgeois counterpart, the obscenely successful Andy Hardy series starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, later teamed in the archetypal teen pix Babes in Arms and Babes on Broadway . Universal made a likewise profitable series with Deanna Durbin, and over at RKO in the '40s, the teen-age Shirley Temple starred in movies like The Bachelor and The Bobby-Soxer . It is in 1949 that the echt misunderstood teen film Knock on Any Door was made, starring John Derek as the misfit who wanted to "live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse."