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I'll Take Romance (1937)
Directed by Edward H. Griffith
“Romance in Swing-Time!”
Music, Romance · 1h 30m
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Cast
Grace Moore
Elsa Terry
Melvyn Douglas
James Guthrie
Helen Westley
Madame Della aka Madella
Stuart Erwin
'Pancho' Brown
Margaret Hamilton
Margot
Walter Kingsford
William Kane
Richard Carle
Rudi
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Monsieur Ginard
Esther Muir
Panda
F
Frank Forest
Pinkerton
W
Walter O. Stahl
Johan
Barry Norton
Juan
Crew
- Director
- Edward H. Griffith
- Screenplay
- George Oppenheimer, Jane Murfin
Details
- Release date
- 1937-11-17
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Music, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures