Bosley Crowther: THE SCREEN; Irene Dunne, Alexander Knox Appear in 'Over 21' of Music Hall--'Bewitched' Makes Its Bow at the Criterion Theatre. In: The New York Times. 17. August 1945 (englisch, Online bei nytimes.com [abgerufen am 30. Mai 2019]).
Jeanine Basinger, A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930–1960, zitiert nach Jeremy Arnold: Over 21 (1945) – Articles. In: Turner Classic Movies. Abgerufen am 30. Mai 2019 (englisch): „[…] a career woman who takes over her husband's role in life. [She] becomes both male and female hero to the story. […] Their gender failures, hers as cook and his as athlete, are appropriate to a time in pop-culture history in which audiences were asked to be supertolerant of one another. It was also a time in which women had to do men's jobs…Irene Dunne takes her husband's place, and he is proud of her for it. She is, he says, 'the best newspaperman there is.' […] She has become a man, and the action is welcome. But only in wartime, and only because the play was written by a woman!“
