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Certificate U
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Musical comedy, featuring Durbin performing 'Tchaikovsky Waltz', 'Clavelitos' and 'Going Home'. Read more

Starring Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings
Director Henry Koster
Genres Drama

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It Started With Eve

Musical comedy, featuring Durbin performing 'Tchaikovsky Waltz', 'Clavelitos' and 'Going Home'.

Starring Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings
Director Henry Koster
Studio SIMPLY MEDIA
Run time DVD: 1 hr 27 mins
Certificate Certificate U
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 04 Oct 2004
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (4) of It Started With Eve

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Deanna Durbin, everybody's ideal teenager, was blossoming into young womanhood when she starred opposite Charles Laughton in this delightful romantic comedy. Laughton plays a crusty millionaire whose deathbed wish is to meet his son's fiancée. Therefore, the son, Robert Cummings, picks up hat-check girl Durbin to impersonate his bride-to-be for a day. Naturally, Laughton takes a shine to her and recovers. While the plot thickens, Deanna's bell-like tones are heard in three songs. It was remade less charmingly as I'd Rather Be Rich (1964) with Maurice Chevalier and Sandra Dee.

    • Radio Times
  • Far better than most Durbin vehicles, enlivened no end by the presence of Laughton as the cantankerous old millionaire... read more on Time Out

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  • 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Better then average Deanna Durbin vehicle

    The usual type of romantic musical comedy that Deanna Durbin is known for - but I think this one is a cut above the rest largely because of the presence of Charles Laughton who many times steals the show. If the film has a weakness it's the rather bland younger leading man (Robert Cummings) who was not very believable. Deanna is up to usual form and any fan of hers will love this.

    The plot revolves around a son whose dying fathers last wish is to meet the girl his son is to marry. However, that girl isn't available - so the son picks up a hat check girl and substitutes her to grant his fathers dying wish. Unfortunately his father gets better and then the complications (and comedy)begin.

    The DVD transfer is excellent. The print is clean and has been transferred to DVD to a high standard.

      • A customer from Yorkshire
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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Remarkably Sparky

    This is saved from being just another star vehicle by Henry Koster's Capra-esque direction, an adroit performance from Robert Cummings and the presence of a slimmed-down Charles Laughton, who steals every scene he's in. Deanna Durbin, a huge star in the late 30s/early 40s, comes across at this distance as a very pleasant light romantic comedy lead, not in the same class as Jean Arthur or Claudette Colbert, but quite sparky and with a lively, if somewhat conventional, singing voice. Familiar more with her reputation than her work, I was expecting something coyer and more simpering, and was very pleasantly surprised.

    Highly enjoyable.

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