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… More 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- Henry Koster
- Written By
- Norman Krasna
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Sep 26, 1941 Wide
- On DVD
- Jan 17, 1995
Critic Reviews
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Comedy of a kind that doesn't get made any more (probably due to a lack of actors who can pull off this sort of thing).
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Cast
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Deanna Durbin
as Anne Terry
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Charles Laughton
as Jonathan Reynolds
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Robert Cummings
as Jonathon Reynolds Jr.
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Guy Kibbee
as Bishop Maxwell
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Margaret Tallichet
as Gloria Pennington
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Catherine Doucet
as Mrs. Pennington
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Walter Catlett
as Dr. Harvey
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Charles Coleman
as Roberts the butler
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Leonard Elliott
as Rev. Henry Stebbins
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Irving Bacon
as Raven
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Gus Schilling
as Raven
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Wade Boteler
as Newspaper Editor
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Dorothea Kent
as Jackie Donovan
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Clara Blandick
as Nurse
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Sig Arno
as Waiter
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Chick Chandler
as Frank (the newspaper reporter)
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John Eldredge
as Hotel Desk Manager
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Mary Gordon
as Cleaning Lady (II)
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John Hamilton
as Thomas
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Robert E. Homans
as Railway Conductor
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Selmar Jackson
as Hotel Guest
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George J. Lewis
as Maitre D'
- Marie McDonald
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Mantan Moreland
as Railway Porter
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Jack Mulhall
as Nightclub Photographer
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Sarah Padden
as Jenny
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Tim Ryan
as Assistant Newspaper Editor
