There Goes My Heart (1938)

A young heiress runs away from her overprotective grandfather. Penniless on the streets of New York, she manages to find employment, but a reporter knows her true identity.

Director:

Norman Z. McLeod

Writers:

Eddie Moran (screen play), Jack Jevne (screen play)

Stars:

Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly

Nominated for 1 Oscar.

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

Storyline

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).

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Plot Keywords:

newspaper reporter | screwball comedy | sea captain | newspaper editor | impersonation | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

Passed

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 October 1938 (USA)

Also Known As:

Aí Vai Meu Coração

Filming Locations:

Hal Roach Studios - 8822 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hal Roach Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

First feature film from Hal Roach Studios released through United Artists. Previously, and for many years, the studio's films were distributed by MGM.

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Quotes

Peggy O'Brien: There's nothing automatic about this apartment, you want something done, you'll have to do it yourself.

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Crazy Credits

The closing "The End" title is spelled out with seashells on a beach (white seashells for "The" and black ones for "End").

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Soundtracks

John Brown's Body
(1859) (uncredited)
(Sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn Of the Republic")
Music by William Steffe (1856)
Lyrics by Thomas Brigham Bishop (1859)
Sung a cappella by Fredric March, Eugene Pallette and Arthur Lake

User Reviews

In Defense of a Not So Terrible Film

Okay, so this is a copy of It Happened One Night. Big deal. There's actually a fair amount in it that is different. The basic elements are the same: Girl runs away from dad/grandfather and dodges the detectives but comes face-to-face with a reporter hiding his identity from her.

I would say that the primary difference between films is the attitudes of the leading men. Clark is essentially blackmailing Claudette in IHON, while in this film, Fredric doesn't seem to have any intention of publicising Virginia - he doesn't want to write the story in the first place, keeps delaying the finish of his story, and finally he rips it up and refuses to do it at all. In TGMH, there is also a strange but amusing supporting actress who works in the same store as Virginia does. Oscar Shapely of IHON is not her equivalent, though amusing in his own way, believe you me.

It Happened One Night is definitely the more solid of the two movies, but There Goes My Heart is fun to watch and should be more actively viewed than it is, instead of being condemned by a majority that probably hasn't seen it, but bases their opinions on the negative reviews of others. I myself was sceptical - I just watched it prepared to react whatever way the movie led me, and I have to say that I did like it and would definitely see it again.