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First Love is a 1939 American musical film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Based on the fairy tale Cinderella , the film is about an orphan who is sent to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school.
First Love, an American silent film by Maurice Campbell First Love (1939 film) , an American musical by Henry Koster First Love (1941 film) , an Italian film by Carmine Gallone
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which honored the best in film for 1939)—Dark Victory, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights—range in genre and are ...
MGM, first of 10 "Maisie" films Man About Town: Mark Sandrich: Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour: Comedy: Paramount: The Man in the Iron Mask: James Whale: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William: Adventure: United Artists: Man of Conquest: George Nicholls Jr. Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Joan Fontaine: Biography: Republic: The Man They Could Not ...
Love Affair is a 1939 American romance film, co-starring Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, and featuring Maria Ouspenskaya. It was directed by Leo McCarey and written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart , based on a story by McCarey and Mildred Cram . [ 2 ]
The role that launched her feature film career was a short song-and-dance sequence in the 1934 movie Stand Up and Cheer! for Fox Film, with James Dunn as her father. Her performance impressed studio executives so much that they immediately cast the duo in a follow-up film, Baby Take a Bow , with Temple again playing Dunn's daughter. [ 2 ]
In Name Only is a 1939 romantic film starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, and Kay Francis, directed by John Cromwell. It was based on the 1935 novel Memory of Love by Bessie Breuer. The fictional town where it is set, Bridgefield, Connecticut, is based on the town of Ridgefield, Connecticut.
It was hosted by Bob Hope, in his first of nineteen turns as host. David O. Selznick's Gone with the Wind received the most nominations of the year with thirteen, winning eight Oscars (both records at the time). This year was the first in which multiple films received ten or more nominations (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington received eleven).