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Her First Romance (1940)

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Film details

Featuring

Edith Fellows Wilbur Evans Julie Bishop
Country

USA
Year

1940
Genre

Musical
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Alternative titles

The Right Man Alternative

Synopsis

Musical comedy. A young girl becomes the 'belle of the ball' although she was forbidden by her less attractive guardian stepsister from going. Their cousin appears with her off-and-on fiance. Both sisters fall for the same man and use the fiance in a ruse to catch him. By the film's end, though, everything is straightened out. After Alan Ladd achieved fame with his work in the 1940s, the film was re-released as THE RIGHT MAN. The film features several musical numbers: "Symphony of love" based on a themes of Tchaikowsky; "La ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni by Mozart; "I dream of Jeanie" (sic) by Stephen Foster; and "I love thee" by Edvard Grieg.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Linda Strong
    
    Edith Fellows
  - Philip Niles
    
    Wilbur Evans
  - Eileen Strong
    
    Wells, Jacqueline
  - John Gilman
    
    Alan Ladd
  - Marian Strong
    
    Judith Linden
  - Donald Whiting
    
    Roger Daniel
  - Katy
    
    Marion Kerby
  - Susie Sloan
    
    Marlo Dwyer
  - Mrs Whiting
    
    Ottola Nesmith
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Edward Dmytryk
  - Production Company
    
    Monogram Pictures Corporation
  - Producer
    
    I.E. Chadwick
  - Associate Producer
    
    Herman Wohl
  - Screenplay
    
    Adele Comandini
  - Dialogue
    
    Warren Leonard
  - Based on the novel by
    
    Gene Stratton Porter
  - Photography
    
    John Mescall
  - Editor
    
    William Ziegler
  - Art Director
    
    George Van Marter
  - Music composed/arranged/conducted
    
    Gregory Stone
  - Lyricist
    
    S. Chas Caine
  - Sound
    
    Karl Zint

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