There Goes My Heart *** (1938, Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly, Nancy Carroll, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 5708

Director Norman Z McLeod’s entertaining 1938 romantic comedy stars the formidable team of Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly, Nancy Carroll and Eugene Pallette.

March plays Bill Spencer, a single reporter who tries to expose 25-year-old heiress Joan Butterfield (Bruce) when she flees from her over-protective grandfather and secretly gets a job in her family’s store as a saleslady.

The screenplay by Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran is based on a daffy original story (by the TV variety host Ed Sullivan) and there is plenty of invention and amusement though of course no substance. But it is ingratiatingly played by a host of top actors and comedians.

Also in the cast are Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Lake, Alan Mowbray, Harry Langdon, Etienne Girardot, Robert Armstrong, Irving Bacon, Irving Pichel, Syd Saylor and J Farrell MacDonald.

© Derek Winnert 2017 Classic Movie Review 5708

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