A musical vehicle for Tony Martin. A showcase for cinematic beauty Rita Hayworth. A light and breezy Depression Era comedy. All are accurate descriptions of the romantic musical “Music in My Heart.” Director Joseph Santley (“The Family Next Door” 1939) put together a pleasant film with high quality production values from a lucid screenplay by James Edward Grant.
Tony Martin plays a Broadway understudy who gets his first big break just as he is being deported back to the UK for an expired Visa. On the way to board the ship to take him back to London, his cab is in a car wreck with Rita Hayworth’s cab, as luck would have it. Sparks fly between the two, even as she is engaged to a millionaire; the zany comedy proceeds from there.
Co-stars include Alan Mobray, Edith Fellows, Eric Blore, George Tobias, Joseph Crehan, George Humbert, Don Brodie, Eddie Kane, Phil Tead, and Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra. The watchable and listenable “Music in My Heart” is good Depression Era escapist programming from Columbia Pictures. “It’s a Blue World,” a song by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright, was the film’s sole Oscar nomination, for Best Song, performed by Tony Martin and Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra.
Music in My Heart (1940)
cinema
My Review
A musical vehicle for Tony Martin. A showcase for cinematic beauty Rita Hayworth. A light and breezy Depression Era comedy. All are accurate descriptions of the romantic musical “Music in My Heart.” Director Joseph Santley (“The Family Next Door” 1939) put together a pleasant film with high quality production values from a lucid screenplay by James Edward Grant.
Tony Martin plays a Broadway understudy who gets his first big break just as he is being deported back to the UK for an expired Visa. On the way to board the ship to take him back to London, his cab is in a car wreck with Rita Hayworth’s cab, as luck would have it. Sparks fly between the two, even as she is engaged to a millionaire; the zany comedy proceeds from there.
Co-stars include Alan Mobray, Edith Fellows, Eric Blore, George Tobias, Joseph Crehan, George Humbert, Don Brodie, Eddie Kane, Phil Tead, and Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra. The watchable and listenable “Music in My Heart” is good Depression Era escapist programming from Columbia Pictures. “It’s a Blue World,” a song by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright, was the film’s sole Oscar nomination, for Best Song, performed by Tony Martin and Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra.