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Head over Heels (1937 film)

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'Head Over Heels' is a 1937 British musical film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Robert Flemyng and Louis Borel. It was released in the U.S. as 'Head over Heels in Love'.

Production



The film was made at the Lime Grove Studios in LondonWood p.90 with sets designed by Alfred Junge. It was based on the play 'Pierre ou Jack' by Francis de Croisset (Paris, 1931).

Plot



In Paris, nightclub entertainer Jeanne (Jessie Matthews) falls in love with her dance partner, the idle, womanising Marcel (Louis Borel). When Marcel runs off with rich and glamorous film star Norma (Helen Whitney Bourne), Jeanne's true love Pierre (Robert Flemyng) comes to her aid, and helps find her work on the radio. After becoming a successful radio star, Jeanne becomes attractive once more to Marcel, but the faithful Pierre cannot risk losing her again.

Cast



* Jessie Matthews as Jeanne Colbert

* Robert Flemyng as Pierre

* Louis Borel as Marcel Larimour

* Romney Brent as Matty

* Whitney Bourne as Norma Langtry

* Paul Leyssac as Max

* Eliot Makeham as Martin

* Fred Duprez as Norma's manager

* Edward Cooper as Charles

Critical reception



Writing for 'The Spectator' in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, characterizing it as "a moribund tale of poor young people with ambitions in Parisian garrets". Greene concludes that the film is one of the "worst English film[s] of the quarter". (reprinted in: )

The 'Radio Times' wrote, "Having made her movie name under the direction of Victor Saville, Jessie Matthews went to work for her four-time co-star and then husband Sonnie Hale, whose first outing behind the camera this was," but concluded, "Hale's inexperience shows away from the musical numbers. But it's engaging enough, and Alfred Junge's sets give the film a sophistication too often missing from British musicals of the period"; while 'Allmovie' wrote, "Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner."

References



Bibliography



* Low, Rachael. 'Filmmaking in 1930s Britain'. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.

* Wood, Linda. 'British Films, 1927-1939'. British Film Institute, 1986.


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