My Love Came Back(Warner Bros.) (1940)

‘MY LOVE CAME BACK'—CURRENT PUBLICITY (Opening Day) ‘My Love Game Back’ Swingy Film Musical At Strand Today A running chain of comedy situations make up the fastpaced Warner musical, ‘My Love Came _ Back,” starring Olivia deHavilland and Jeffrey Lynn, which opens at the Strand Theatre today. As snappy as a next season’s Hattie Carnegie number, “My Love Came Back” is cast with a list of dependable laughjerkers including Eddie Albert, Jane Wyman, Charles Winninger and Spring Byington. Continental flavor is added by the touch of Kurt Bernhardt, a recent import, and the Walter Reisch story was adapted for the screen by Ivan Goff, Robert Buckner and Earl Baldwin. The wild chain of events starts with poor, pretty and provacative Amelia Cornell, played by Olivia deHavilland, throwing a book at her violin teacher. It’s all because she isn’t allowed to teach students, and she needs the money to support her mother and continue her education. To the rescue comes millionaire Julius Malette, played by Charles Winninger, who ar ranges for her to have a scholarship, without knowing her sponsor. The two strike a warm friendship and Julius, to have more time to devote to Amelia, turns over his factory to Tony Baldwin, played by Jeffrey Lynn. Two of Amelia’s friends, Joy and Dusty, played by Jane Wyman and Eddie Albert, want to organize a band to swing classical music. They need money. Meanwhile, news of Julius’ sponsorship leaks out and causes a scandal. Amelia thinks she returns the money, but Joy and Dusty forge her name, to use the funds for their band. Tony helps Amelia clear herself when the band is a success and in the money. They fall very much in love and future prospects are cheerful for the two when the film comes to its delightful closing scenes. The lilting classical music of Liszt, Chopin and Mendelssohn, was arranged in -jitterbug-time by Ray Heindorf and Max Rabinowitsch. Pert Jane Wyman In ‘My Love Game Back’ A brown-eyed blonde with an effervescent personality, the sort of figure you see on those barber shop calendars, a retrousse nose and an insatiable appetite for having fun is pert Jane Wyman, appearing with Olivia deHavilland, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert, Charles Winninger and Spring Byington in Warner Bros.’ “My Love Came Back,” at the Strand. Jane’s is just such a role as those that have brought her ahead, step by step during the past four years, into the Hollywood limelight. She has played supporting roles in twenty pictures in this time, but the present one is one of the most important of the list, and seems certain to lead to bigger things. As a violin virtuoso turned jitterbug, Jane has all the opportunities to put her special type of sprightly zest into “My Love Came Back.” Her heart interest, in the film, is Eddie Albert, and the two romp through a series of sparkling escapades. It’s a big step in the right direction for a girl who took three cracks at Hollywood before she could make a dent in it; a girl who went all through the heart break of working as a model, a telephone operator, anything that would keep her going until her number came up. Mat 204—30c NEW GLAMOUR FOR OLIVIA, when Warners’ cast Miss deHavilland in a daringly different role. Sweet Melanie and tower-top princess have given way to book-throwing, fiddle-swinging modern gal in "My Love Came Back". (Review) Olivia Swings a Mean Fiddle in ‘My Love Came Back’ It hardly seems possible, that the sweet and gentle Melanie of “Gone With The Wind,” Olivia deHavilland, is a glamor girl in a swing band in her next picture, Warner Bros.’ sparkling new comedy with music. Olivia comes straight from her success as a Southern lady of the old school to her new part in “My Love Came Back,” now showing at the Strand Theatre. She not only plays a hot fiddle in Eddie Albert’s swing band, but has the most dramatic role, ineluding one notable scene in which she throws a tantrum. All this is rather strange for Olivia, but it’s both exciting and encouraging. The “My Love Came Back” set resounded with music alternating between Beethoven and Benny Goodman. And Olivia fiddled. She’s a new girl, and there’s a look in her eye and a click to her step that wasn’t there before. Besides, the soothsayers allege that Olivia is head over toes in love with a nice young man who’s’ working steady. Name of James Stewart. ‘My Love Came Back’ Will Laugh Blues Away! Olivia deHavilland and Jeffrey Lynn Star In Delightful New Comedy at Strand CAST: Amelia Cornell: .......... Olivia deHavilland Tony Baldwins i ecitetecsatotaentes: Jeffrey Lynn Dasty. Rhodes: vce se eee Eddie Albert jeyeOReelessis. a Jane Wyman Julius Malette ............ 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There’s a sure cure for your blues waiting for you at the Strand Theatre, where Olivia deHavilland, Jeffrey Lynn, and a host of other delightful people are cavorting through the most refreshing comedy of many seasons. “My Love Came Back” is the title, and it’s a laugh-getter. To the syncopated tempo of music of the masters played in jitterbug-time, the madcap antics of a music student and her wacey cohorts—Eddie Albert, Jane Wyman, Charles Winninger and Spring Byington—keep a terrific pace. Miss deHavilland is the violin student, Amelia Cornell, who is as talented as she is_ broke. Winninger is the industrial magnate, Julius Mallette, who turns his factory over to Tony Baldwin, played by Jeffrey Lynn, that he might have more time to devote to Amelia’s career. Amelia doesn’t know her patron’s identity when she gets a Mat 201—30c EDDIE ALBERT seems all wrapped up in his music. What he does to the classics is something—depending on how you like your music! It's all in "My Love Came Back" at the Strand—and its all for fun. [17] scholarship, but learns soon enough when the town learns he is none other than Mr. Malette, and the girl becomes the butt of scandal. She thinks this can be straightened out by returning the check in question, and this she thinks she does. But swingsters Joy and Dusty, played by Jane Wyman and Eddie Albert, cash the check to help put over their classical swing band. Amelia is starred in the band’s first performance, an important event for the organization. She faints when she appears and discovers it to be taking place in the Mallette home. A big session between Mrs. Mallette, played by Spring Byington, the Mallette children, and all parties concerned, ends with understanding. The band is a _ success. And Amelia is the biggest success of all—with Tony. Eddie Albert has another of his elf-like roles that have made him a movie favorite in Warner Bros.’ “My Love Came Back,” now at the Strand Theatre. In his inimitable fashion, Eddie, with the help of that explosive blonde, Jane Wyman, manages to complicate the lives of Olivia deHavilland, Jeffrey Lynn, Charles Winninger and Spring Byington in the delightful romantic comedy. The sprightly, lorn and eager Mr. Albert is always getting into the strangest situations, off the screen as well as on. The latest, in his private life, came by a schooner captain he acquired somewheres who claims he’s seen a fur bearing seal. Already Eddie is preparing for an expedition to Guadeloupe. (Explorers will tell you there is no such thing any more as a fur bearing seal — the last known pair died a year ago at the San Diego Zoo.) The saga of Eddie Albert, the Minneapolis boy who made his first mark in the world by inventing a double-thick malted Eddie Albert —Tuba Virtuoso Charles Winninger Has Second Youth in ‘My Love Came Back’ Charles Winninger emphatically denies that he is going on a vacation with his brother Adolph. “What! With that old man! How could I have any fun? Why, he’s 58 years old!” “How old are you, Charlie?” “Oh, fifty-six.” The Winninger boys have the same birthday. They recently celebrated a Hollywood record in brother acts because they are the only known team whose film career runs as far back as 1914 and the old Elkay Studios at Sunset and Gower. The Winninger brothers just finished working on the Warner Bros. picture, “My Love Came Back,” the film currently showing at the Strand Theatre, which gives Charles one of the grandest comedy roles of his long career. He plays Julius Malette, big business executive, who decides to retire and enjoy a _ second youth by aiding and abetting the career of a poor, young, and very pretty girl violinist, played by Olivia deHavilland. Both brothers are silver topped and look very much alike, but Adolphe, who starred in stock companies from Broadway to Burbank and was a director long before Charlie was a star, is now his brother’s stand-in. It doesn’t make a speck of difference to the Winningers. Jane Is Athletic Type Jane Wyman, who was one of Hollywood’s leading night-clubbers before her marriage to Ronald Reagan, has _ almost abandoned her evening haunts. Needs all the extra shut-eye she can get, she explains, to play golf and swim with her husband. “T’m the athletic type now,” says Jane, who is featured in ‘My Love Came Back,” “And I like it,’ Once Stars, Now Extras Ten stars and leading men whose names were famous a few years ago are “dress extras” in a ballroom scene in Warners’ “My Love Came Back,” starring Olivia deHavilland and Jeffrey Lynn. They are Wyndham Standing, Stuart Holmes, Henry J. Herbert, Creighton Hale, Ed Mortimer, Frank Mayo, Eric Mayne, Al Lloyd, Sidney Bracy and Sidney de Gray. milk, includes a few things stranger than seal hunting. He once walked out on his thousand-a-week salary to rope burros at Baja, California. Another time he hunted pirate treasure and was astonished not to find it. Then, there’ve been Mexican gold finding expeditions. Fun, but not the sort of thing you keep doing. Eddie read Ernest Hemingway and decided to become a bullfighter and was earnest enough to study under a toreador. Planes were his next enthusiasm. He stopped one day after he barged into a Naval formation 10,000 feet up. Mr. Albert never yearned to do Hamlet — he prefers his own glib and antic roles. He knows that funnymen are really doleful, and that what’s so funny about them is their futile efforts to cope with reality. So that’s the kind of role he plays in “My Love Came Back.” He copes with a tuba and with efforts to organize a swing band. He has lots of trouble, shrugs it off. Life is like that.