1h 17min |
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Edith Fellows, Wilbur Evans, Julie Bishop, Alan Ladd
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032581/
Watched online, mediocre audio/video.
Alan Ladd had 15 credits for unnamed parts, and a total of 28 credits before this one. So it's hard to determine (without opening the page for every named credit, or perhaps even seeing the other films) whether this was his meatiest role to-date. Certainly the onscreen credit before this one, for Republic, had him 8th billed, and I recognize 3 of the names ahead of his; but another uncredited role appears in a film in between. He is 4th billed here.
Edith Fellows (b. '23, the plain coed) and Wilbur Evans (b. '05) are the operatic singers (he professional) who find mutual attraction.
EF has 2 sisters (or partial sisters), one overconfident, the other also underconfident. Alan Ladd is paired with the overconfident one, until he returns from an out of town trip. The overconfident one also falls for WE, so we have a love pentagon here, with nearly all the vertices connected.
WE makes only 1 other film, and has stage credits in his Other Works.
EF was a child actor, starting in '29, with 48 credits through '42, two more in the 60s, two more in the 80s (so 52 total). She makes only 9 films after this one. She has stage credits too.
I was wondering why 5'6" Alan Ladd looked so tall. EF is listed as 4'10".
Nice music, and better than expected plot. I wouldn't call this a drama. Just a romance.
Notice the director. He goes on to helm some very good films: Murder, My Sweet ('44), Crossfire ('47) and The Caine Mutiny ('54).
Monogram, dir. Dmytryk; 6-
