The Idea of You
2024 · Music · Comedy
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Film / 1941
It Started with Eve
Directed by
Henry Koster
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
The story
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
Cast
Deanna DurbinAnne Terry
Charles LaughtonJonathan Reynolds
Robert CummingsJohnny Reynolds Jr.
Guy KibbeeBishop Maxwell
Margaret TallichetGloria Pennington
Catherine DoucetMrs. Pennington
Walter CatlettDr. Harvey
Charles ColemanRoberts
Leonard ElliottHenry Stebbins
Irving BaconRaven
Gus SchillingRaven
Wade BotelerHarry - Newspaper Editor
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Dorothea KentJackie Donovan
Clara BlandickNurse
John BannerParty Guest (uncredited)
Wilson BengeWilliams (uncredited)
Chick ChandlerFrank (uncredited)
John EldredgeHotel Desk Manager (uncredited)
Bess FlowersNightclub Patron (uncredited)
Mary GordonMrs. O'Toole (uncredited)
John HamiltonThomas - Headwaiter (uncredited)
Rosalind IvanMrs. Mulligan (uncredited)
George J. LewisMaitre d' (uncredited)
Marie McDonaldCigarette Girl (uncredited)
Bert MoorhouseMr. Duncan (uncredited)
Mantan MorelandRailway Porter (uncredited)
William H. O'BrienNightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Broderick O'FarrellParty Guest (uncredited)
Paul PorcasiArmand (uncredited)
Charlotte TreadwayParty Guest (uncredited)
Ray WalkerSlim - Reporter (uncredited)
Lucille WardNurse (uncredited)
Sonia DarrinNightclub Patron (uncredited)
Hazel DohlmanParty Guest (uncredited)
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