My Love Came Back (1940)

Directed by

Curtis Bernhardt

Genre

musical film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gifted young violinist at a music academy struggles with whether to leave for a jazz band. A wealthy patron secretly pays for her scholarship, and they start to bond over concerts. A mix-up with a business manager creates romantic complications.

lightheartedromanticwhimsicalupbeatclassicalcharminggentlenostalgic

What happens

My Love Came Back is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Olivia de Havilland, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert, and Jane Wyman. Based on the 1935 Austrian film Episode written and directed by Walter Reisch, the film is about a gifted young violinist who considers leaving a prestigious music academy to play in a jazz band to earn money. The academy's new president—a distinguished wealthy patron of the arts—convinces her to stay after secretly arranging a scholarship for her out of his own pocket, and the two begin attending concerts together. Complications arise when he asks his young business manager to take his place at one of the concerts. The film is notable for Heinz Eric Roemheld's musical direction and Ray Heindorf's unique swing orchestral arrangements of classical pieces. My Love Came Back was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on July 13, 1940. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Hullabaloo (1940)
• Hit Parade of 1941 (1940)
• Oh Johnny, How You Can Love (1940)
• I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)
• It's a Date (1940)
• Melody and Moonlight (1940)
• Irene (1940)
• Little Nellie Kelly (1940)