1h 30min | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 26 September 1941
Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033766/
Charming comedy that also happens to feature DD singing 3 times, each while playing piano, and with a very small audience. DD provides a lot of the charm, but Charles Laughton steals the show. Bob Cummings plays nervous again, and does it well. Fortunately, his motivations seem pure: wanting to please his father, and then is forbidden by the doctor from rectifying his deception.
The film poster above seems to show the 3 of them about to slide down a banister. CL joked at one point that he did, but no one does. However, DD is very good at standing on a chair, one foot on the seat, one atop the back, and making it slowly tilt so the back lies on the floor (or reversing that). RC and CL each try it. I'll not reveal success/failure.
This might have been an 8 if the mother/daughter (fiancee) were more familiar/better. I was very irritated every time the mother twirled her pearls; that's no way to treat real ones. And no dancing here. (There is a DD film with Donald O'Connor, and he dances memorably atop some furniture.) I don't think they made any reference that explains the title. No character is named Eve, and the only temptations aren't particularly linked to a woman.
Universal, dir. Koster; 7+
