It Started With Eve (1941)
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring Deanna Durbin. Jonathan Reynolds Jr. (Robert Cummings) is the playboy son of multi-millionaire business magnate Jonathan Reynolds, Sr. (Charles Laughton). Junior has told his father that he's finally met the woman he's going to marry while on a recent trip to Mexico, and Father, who has been given a very short time to live by his doctors, wants to meet her right away. However, the woman in question is not available, so Junior persuades Anne Terry (Durbin), a hat-check girl and aspiring singer, to pose as his fiancée for the sake of his father's peace of mind. Father takes quite a liking to Anne, which is fine and good until he defies all the expectations of his doctors and makes a complete recovery. Now Father is spending a great deal of time with the woman he thinks is going to be his future daughter-in-law, and Junior isn't sure how to tell him that Anne isn't really the woman he wants to marry. As usual, Durbin sings several songs, including "Clavelitos" by Valverde and "Going Home," adapted from Symphony for the New World by Dvorak. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Deanna Durbin - Anne Terry
- Robert Cummings - Jonathon Reynolds, Jr.
- Margaret Tallichet - Gloria Pennington
- Walter Catlett - Dr. Harvey
- Leonard Elliott - Rev. Henry Stebbins
- Gus Schilling - Raven
- Dorothea Kent - Jackie Donovan
- Selmar Jackson - Hotel Guest
- Robert E. Homans - Railway Conductor
- Sig Arno - Waiter
- John Hamilton - Thomas
- Mary Gordon - Cleaning Lady (II)
- Mantan Moreland - Railway Porter
- Charles Laughton - Jonathan Reynolds
- Guy Kibbee - Bishop Maxwell
- Catherine Doucet - Mrs. Pennington
- Charles Coleman - Roberts, the butler
- Irving Bacon - Raven
- Wade Boteler - Newspaper Editor
- Clara Blandick - Nurse
- Sarah Padden - Jenny
- Tim Ryan - Assistant Newspaper Editor
- John Eldredge - Hotel Desk Manager
- Jack Mulhall - Nightclub Photographer
- George Lewis - Maitre D'
- Chick Chandler - Frank (the newspaper reporter)
- Director(s):
- Henry Koster
- Writer(s):
- Norman Krasna, Leo Townsend
- Producer(s):
- Henry Koster, Joe Pasternak
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