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title: "It Started with Eve"
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# It Started with Eve

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It Started with Eve

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## Customer Reviews

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    "DYING IS EASY.  COMEDY IS HARD."
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 26, 2020*

The source of the above quote is obscure.  Nobody knows what actor said it, or in fact if any actor did.  It's just so great, I have to use it.  I did find a story about the actor Edmund Gwenn, however.  Gwenn was quite ill, so a friend visiting him told him he knew how difficult it was to die.  At that remark, Gwenn perked up.  "But not as difficult as playing comedy."  Those were his last words.It has been said that inside every great dramatic actor is a comedian trying to escape (I just said it).  Charles Laughton wanted to be in a picture with Abbott and Costello ("Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd," 1952) so that he could learn comedy technique from Lou Costello.  There was no need.  In 1941, Laughton was already a magnificent comedian.Eccentric millionaire Johnathan Reynolds is dying, and the newspapers can hardly wait for it to happen.  His son Johnny (Robert Cummings)  rushes back from  his vacation in Mexico just in time.  The old man would like to meet Johnny's fiance, but she and her mother are out shopping, so what can he do?  He tells a hat-check girl he will give her $50 (an enormous  sum of money in 1941) to impersonate his girlfriend.  After all, his father's  only got hours, many minutes, to live.But  Anne Terry (Deanna Durbin) is like a tonic to the old man.  Not only doesn't he die, he wants her to have breakfast with him in his bedroom the next morning!  Pretty soon everyone  is convinced that Johnny and Anne are engaged.  Anne came to New York from a small town to pursue a singing  career.  The problem is New York isn't interested.  But with Reynolds' connections to the musical world, she has at last a real chance.  However, being a decent person, she doesn't want to continue this deception, telling Reynolds at one point that she never wants to see him again.I'm no fan of Deanna Durbin, but I really think she's great here as the girl who falls in love with Robert Cummungs in spite of herself.  And she gives Laughton a chance to do a couple of great comedy routines.  Laughton's doctor (played by another excellent comedian, Walter Catlett) has forbidden him to smoke cigars.  Realizing that Reynolds is going to do whatever he wants anyway (there are cigars hidden all over the room), Anne limits him to 10 puffs.  When the doctor suddenly enters, Johnathan hides the cigar under the covers.  Soon large plums of white smoke are emerging from under the bed, which Johnathan and Anne try to blame on a faulty heater!After Anne tells Johathan she doesn't want to see him anymore, he goes to her apartment. She's packing, ready to catch to next train home.  He suggests they go to a quiet little club where  nobody knows his name.  As soon as they enter, everybody greets him.  He's even got his own cocktail, "The Reynolds' Special," which is the largest drink I've ever seen.  When  he and Anne do the conga, it's absolutely hilarious, especially when Johnny and the doctor walk in.  Jonathan is having the time of his life, but his doctor is ready to have a stroke!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A fantastic comedy pairing Charles and Deanna together again
  

*by N***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 4, 2020*

A fun lighthearted comedy starring Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, and Robert Cummings. Charles Laughton is a very wealthy magnet who is on his death bed. His son(Robert Cummings) is engaged to a stuck socialite and one evening Charles Laughton decides he wants to meet his sons future bride. Robert rushes to the hotel only to find his future bride is out shopping with her mother. In a panic he solicits the coat check girl(Deanna Durbin) to go home with him and pretend she is his future wife. It's live at first site between Charles Laughton and what he believes will be his future daughter in law. A lot of slap stick silly fun starts and soon Charles is feeling better and determined to make sure his son marries Deanna's character Eve.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Deanna Durbin---Only the Best Ever
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 21, 2021*

They just had no answer for. Deanna Durbin. She was beautiful  an unmatched voice and able to overcome the embarrassing role Bob Cummings was stuck with. To.watch Durbin show great promise that her studio squandered by not giving her more important roles. BUY this DVD if only to watch Deanna Durbin and be smitten by her talent!

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