ThiefHott Too much of everything

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

reader4 All the actors do well with what they're given. So I guess one must blame the director.But the main fault seems to be the humdrum script. It's too bad, too, because it contains several very funny lines. I laughed out loud more than once.However, it's at least half an hour too long, which, at 83 minutes, gives you some idea. It seems like it's full of padding. It just goes on and on, one barely animate scene after another. The ice skating rink is a good example. It would have been much funnier at about a third its length. In fact, the whole movie probably would have been a winner at about 35 minutes.Patsy Kelly is good but doesn't have enough to do. The same goes for Alan Mowbray. It would have been nice if their romance had been an actual subplot (heaven knows there was plenty of time for it). As it is, they have no lives of their own, but are merely used to shore up and fill in chinks in the March/Bruce story. The exception is Kelly's Vibrato scene, which is probably the high point of the film.Virginia Bruce is stock in a faceless part -- I'm not sure any actress could have brought any life to it. Not a single funny line for her, although she does have the other funniest scene in the film, where she's plugging extension cords into light bulb sockets in the sign outside the window. Frederick March handles a comedic role well. Arthur Lake is completely wasted. See the Blondie series of movies if you want to see what he can do.The only stand-out is Eugene Palette, who has one of his best roles ever. It's just made for his hard-boiled, uneducated delivery. Unfortunately, he has almost no funny lines. Marjorie Main is a highlight of the film and doesn't even get credit! I don't think the few genuinely funny parts are worth the hour-plus of yawning which engulfs them.

vincentlynch-moonoi This film had two strikes against it (at least for me) to start with -- it's another 1930s comedy about a missing heiress and a cast with which (other than Frederick March) I wasn't very familiar. I almost turned it off after the first 10 minutes, but I'm glad I stuck with it. It really is quite good. Frederick March was, of course, a very respected actor, and he does very nicely here. I wasn't familiar with Virginia Bruce, but she does very nicely here as the heiress...but hardly a spoiled one, which is perhaps what makes this film work so well. I also was not familiar with Patsy Kelly, but she does nicely as the wacky new-best-friend. Eugene Palette (you'll know his rotund figure and barrel-chested voice) is great, as always, as a character actor here. And it was nice seeing Claude Gillingwater (who was Mr. Manette in "A Tale Of Two Cities") as the grandfather. If there are any weaknesses to mention, first there's a rather weak ending, and secondly, there's Arthur Lake (of Dagwood fame), and as always I failed to see the talent. But there are some nice moments, including a rather wacky skating segment, which doesn't have a heck of a lot to do with the plot, but is nonetheless entertaining. All in all it's a pleasant movie, and better than I expected. Good to view at least once, if you're at all a fan of 1930s movies.

edwagreen The premise of the movie along with the presence of comedian Patsy Kelly could have made this a terrific film. Instead, a rather benign ending spoils it all.Virginia Bruce is the wealthy young lady, bored with her life, and so she flees from her cantankerous grandfather, a wonderful Claude Gillingwater, who had been so memorable 3 years before as Tellson's banker in the classic "A Tale of Two Cities."Bruce meets up with Kelly in a very funny cafeteria scene and soon discovers that the latter is working in her family department store. Kelly obtains a job for Bruce in the store, and despite some funny moments, more could have been done with this.Fredric March does well here as the reporter assigned to find the missing Bruce and of course love blossoming between the two.The major fault with this film is the ending. It was so dry that you feel that the film makers were constrained to keep the film to 1:30. Shame.

blanche-2 If you believe films like "There Goes My Heart," every gal with money wanted to be poor in the 1930s and ran away from home. Thanks to the huge success of "It Happened One Night," the ambitious reporter-newsworthy heiress angle, the heiress disguised as a commoner, etc., was done over and over again - this film, "Love is News," "Bright Lights," "Anything Goes," "They Wanted to Marry," "Love on the Run" - I could go on.Now we have "There Goes My Heart," where a young heiress (Virginia Bruce) gets away from her overprotective grandfather and escapes to New York. There, she meets a young woman (Patsy Kelly) who offers to share her apartment and helps her get a department store job. Meanwhile, a newspaperman (Fredric March) is on the story, but doesn't tell Bruce who he is.As others have pointed out, Virginia Bruce, though lovely, was no screwball comedy star. Here she's in a Carole Lombard role. Patsy Kelly for me always gave a large, loud stage performance. She's very funny in this; other times I've found her annoying. Fredric March is quite relaxed in his role, and Eugene Palette is effective as the stereotypical editor who's always angry at his reporter. Harry Langdon has a nice cameo at the end.There are some good scenes in this film, particularly the ice skating sequence, and Kelly's attempts to demonstrate the "Vibrato" exercise machine. The drunk scene between Palette, March, and Arthur Lake is good, too."There Goes My Heart" is filled with wonderful actors like Alan Mowbray and Marjorie Main, plus the aforementioned Langdom and Lake. It doesn't try to be more than it is, and it's successful in his own right if you don't expect too much.