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Title: There Goes My Heart (1938)
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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Fredric March | ... | Bill Spencer | |
| Virginia Bruce | ... | Joan Butterfield | |
| Patsy Kelly | ... | Peggy O'Brien | |
| Alan Mowbray | ... | Pennypepper E. Pennypepper | |
| Nancy Carroll | ... | Dorothy Moore | |
| Eugene Pallette | ... | Mr. Stevens - Editor | |
| Claude Gillingwater | ... | Cyrus Butterfield | |
| Arthur Lake | ... | Flash Fisher | |
| Etienne Girardot | ... | Hinkley - Secretary | |
| Robert Armstrong | ... | Detective O'Brien | |
| Irving Bacon | ... | Mr. Dobbs | |
| Irving Pichel | ... | Mr. Gorman | |
| Syd Saylor | ... | Robinson (as Sid Saylor) | |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | ... | Officer | |
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Seeing her chance, 25-year-old heiress (Virginia Bruce) flees from her over-protective grandfather with none of her fortune in her purse. On the streets of New York, she is befriended by a shop girl (Patsy Kelly) . The shop girl takes her in and gets her a job at the store which is part of a chain owned by the heiress. Unbeknownst to the newsworthy heiress, her true identity is known to a single reporter (March). Written by CComly
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newspaper reporter | screwball comedy | male female relationship | sea captain | newspaper editor |Taglines:
HE - loved her - yet had to expose her - SHE - loved him - but a million dollars stood between them - then - WHAM - And What Could a Poor Girl Do!Parents Guide:
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Peggy O'Brien: Well, eh, not unless there's somebody in it. Tell her no.
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Music by Henry Russell
Lyrics by Epes Sargent
Sung a cappella by Fredric March
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Joan Butterfield: [holding a slip] Peggy, there's a woman over there who wants to know if this lingerie will run.Peggy O'Brien: Well, eh, not unless there's somebody in it. Tell her no.
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Lyrics by Epes Sargent
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EnglishRelease Date:
14 October 1938 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
There Goes My Heart See more »Filming Locations:
Hal Roach Studios - 8822 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USACompany Credits
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...It doesn't entirely work, unfortunately. Fredric March is excellent, as always. What a fine and versatile actor! And Virginia Bruce is winning, as she always was. She plays an heiress, he a newspaper reporter sent to get a story about her. (This aspect presages the Bette Davis movie "Golden Arrows.") Eugene Palette, always a treat, plays his editor.
Bruce is not an ideal screwball heroine, unfortunately. Her pale, wistful beauty doesn't really lend itself to the genre, though she is dine in the movie. Patsy Kelly is hilarious as her pal: Bruce has sailed to Manhattan in her yacht while granddaddy is away. She finds herself in the City with no money. At a diner (kind of an Automat but not really) she and Kelly scam some food. Kelly picks her up! "If you don't have anywhere else to go, you can spend the night at my place." Kelly's ostensible romantic interest is Alan Mowbry, a neighbor who is studying to become a chiropractor by mail. What a couple they make! Back at the store where Kelly works, which Grandpa owns, we see Kelly demonstrating a device called "Vibrato." It's a kind of Sapphic intimation of the Vega-Meta-Vitamin sequence decades later from "I Love Lucy." The movie has a sterling supporting cast, which also includes Nancy Carroll, delicious as a jealous, catty fellow saleswoman.
It also, unfortunately, has afar too lengthy and pointless scene with Bruce and march at a skating rink. Why it was allowed to go on so long is a mystery. (There is a similar scene in one of Irene Dunne's lesser comedies -- "Joy of Living," I think.) The movie begins in a stylish, chic manner but it loses its way. It could have been in the top tier but as it is it's still fun.