It Started with Eve (1941)

Directed by

Henry Koster

Genre

musical film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

16

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman pretends to be the fiancée of a dying man to fulfill his father's last wish, but complications arise when the father recovers and the arrangement continues.

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What happens

It Started with Eve is a 1941 American musical romantic comedy film starring Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, and Robert Cummings. Directed by Henry Koster, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Music Score (Charles Previn and Hans J. Salter). The film is considered by some critics to be Durbin's best film, and the last in which she worked with the producer (Joe Pasternak) and director (Henry Koster) who groomed her for stardom. It Started with Eve was remade in 1964 as I'd Rather Be Rich. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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