When You're in Love
When You're in Love is a 1937 American musical film directed by Robert Riskin and Harry Lachman, who was not credited, and starring Grace Moore and Cary Grant. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" and the Ernesto Lecuona classic Cuban song "Siboney". Two of the other songs in the film "Our Song" and "The Whistling Boy" are by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields.
Plot
Jimmy Hudson (Cary Grant) is a vagabond American artist in Mexico who can't pay his hotel bill. Louise Fuller (Grace Moore) is an acclaimed classical singer recently expelled from the U.S. to Mexico on an expired visa, and desperate to get back in. She hires Hudson to marry her so that she can regain entry to the United States in time to give a benefit performance, stipulating that he must divorce her within six months to receive his final payment. Hudson agrees only because he sees something special in her, but thinks she has lost her way both personally and artistically in fame, her entourage, and her career. Once they have returned to the country and gone their separate ways, Hudson begins pursuing her, hoping to bridge their differences by drawing her from her own gilded world into his, and thus to turn their sham marriage into something real.
Cast
- Aline MacMahon
- Alphonse Martell
- Ann Doran
- Arthur Hoyt
- Barnett Parker
- Bess Flowers
- Billy Gilbert
- Cary Grant
- Catherine Doucet
- Chrispin Martin
- Emma Dunn
- Frank Puglia
- Gene Morgan
- Gerald Oliver Smith
- Grace Moore
- Harry Holman
- Henry Stephenson
- J. P. Lockney
- Jean De Briac
- Louise Brooks
- Luis Alberni
- Marcelle Corday
- May Wallace
- Robert Emmett O'Connor
- Scotty Beckett
- Thomas Mitchell
More details
author | Robert Riskin |
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director | Harry Lachman Robert Riskin |
editor | Gene Milford |
genre | comedy |
keywords | american art draw expel hotel bill sham marriage |
musicBy | Alfred Newman |
producer | Everett Riskin Harry Lachmman |
productionCompany | Columbia Pictures |
publisher | Columbia Pictures |
theme | musical musical comedy romantic comedy romantic musical |