There Goes My Girl (1937)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Ben Holmes

Writers:

George Beck (story)
Harry Segall (screenplay)

Release Date:

21 MÁJUS 1937 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

A screwball comedy in the vein of His Girl Friday (1940). Jerry and Connie are ace reporters for rival newspapers...

Plot Keywords:

Newspaper | Reporter | Managing Editor | Editor | Reconciliation

Cast

Gene Raymond	...	Reporter Jerry Martin
Ann Sothern	...	Reporter Connie Taylor
Gordon Jones	...	Reporter Dunn
Richard Lane	...	Editor Tim J. Whelan
Frank Jenks	...	Reporter Frank 'George' Tate
Bradley Page	...	Joe Rethburn, Nightclub Owner
Joan Woodbury	...	Margot Whitney
Marla Shelton	...	Mrs. Grace Andrews
Alec Craig	...	'Godfrey', a Hobo
Joseph Crehan	...	Sgt. Wood
William Corson	...	Dan Curtis
Maxine Jennings	...	Miss Caldwell, Actress
Clyde Dilson	...	Actor Shot at Wedding
Charles Coleman	...	Faraday - Whalen's Butler at Party
Chester Clute	...	Stu Parker, Whelan's Idea Man

Runtime:

74 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Victor System)

Certification:

USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:Approved (PCA #3239)

Company:

RKO Radio Pictures

What Went Wrong?

I have the feeling this movie should be funnier than I find it. All the performers are good -- even if Gene Raymond was always a little too stiff to be interesting, that has lots of possibilities in a screwball comedy. Joe August's cinematography is, as always, great without being intrusive. The stooge reporters, including eternal lunk Gordon Jones, are fine. But this story of how Anne Southern pursues once-and-future fiancé Gene Raymond, after her editor, Richard Lane has a fake murder staged to break up the marriage, never quite gels for me. Maybe it's the way everyone rushes through their lines.Maybe it's the long excursions in a serious plot about murder that no one is expected to care about. Maybe it's the fact that everything is a little too polished and beautiful, including Anne Southern in an expensive fur coat -- I don't care if she is on an expense account, she's a reporter. Mostly I attribute it to the fact there is only one genuinely funny scene, when Anne Southern is beating up the gorillas her editor sent to fetch her back.

The whole thing is directed by RKO stalwart Ben Holmes, a jack-of-all-tradesman for anything not involving a horse. Mr. Holmes worked so fast that he is credited with directing four movies that came out in 1944, even though he died in 1943!