There Goes My Heart (film)

1938 film by Norman Z. McLeod

October 14, 1938 (1938-10-14)

Running time

81-83 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$1 million^[1]Box office$410,700^[2]

There Goes My Heart is a 1938 American romantic comedy film starring Virginia Bruce and Fredric March, and directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Bruce plays a wealthy heiress who goes to work under an alias at a department store owned by her grandfather, and March the reporter who tracks her down. The film is based on a story by Ed Sullivan, better known for his long-running Ed Sullivan Show. The film was nominated for a Best Score Oscar for Marvin Hatley.^[3]

Plot

Cast

Fredric March as Bill Spencer
Virginia Bruce as Joan Butterfield
Patsy Kelly as Peggy O'Brien
Alan Mowbray as Pennypepper E. Pennypepper
Nancy Carroll as Dorothy Moore
Eugene Pallette as Mr. Stevens
Claude Gillingwater as Cyrus W. Butterfield
Arthur Lake as Flash Fisher
Harry Langdon as Preacher (uncredited)
Etienne Girardot as Hinkley
Robert Armstrong as Detective O'Brien
Irving Bacon as Mr. Dobbs
Irving Pichel as Mr. Gorman
Syd Saylor as Robinson (as Sid Saylor)
J. Farrell MacDonald as Police Officer
Marjorie Main as Butterfield's customer (uncredited)
Mary Field as Mrs. Crud (uncredited)

References

^ "Top Films and Stars". Variety. 4 January 1939. p. 10. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
^ Ward, Richard Lewis (2005). A history of the Hal Roach Studios. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 213. - figures are producer's share from US/Canada
^ "The 11th Academy Awards (1939) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-10.