Here's to Romance

1935 film by Alfred Edward Green
  • August 27, 1935 (1935-08-27) (premiere)
  • October 4, 1935 (1935-10-04)
Running time
82 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish
still frame from movie depicting Nino Martini and Anita Louise
Nino Martini and Anita Louise in Here's to Romance

Here's to Romance is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Nino Martini, Genevieve Tobin and Anita Louise.[1][2]

Plot

The wife of a music teacher, who has been angered by her husband's philandering, arranges to send one of his male students to study opera in Paris as her protégé. This causes complications when he falls in love in France with a woman who is upset about his relationship with his patron. Devastated he ends up back in New York as a sheet music salesman. Things soon change when he is reunited with his true love and is invited to perform by the Metropolitan Opera.

Main cast

  • Nino Martini as Nino Donelli
  • Genevieve Tobin as Kathleen Gerard
  • Anita Louise as Lydia Lubov
  • Maria Gambarelli as Rosa
  • Ernestine Schumann-Heink as herself
  • Reginald Denny as Emery Gerard
  • Vicente Escudero as Spanish Gypsy Dancer
  • Adrian Rosley as Sandoval
  • Mathilde Comont as Viola
  • Elsa Buchanan as Enid
  • Miles Mander as Bert
  • Keye Luke as Saito
  • Pat Somerset as Fred
  • Albert Conti as LeFevre
  • Egon Brecher as Descartes
  • Orrin Burke as Carstairs
  • Armand Kaliz as Andriot

References

  1. ^ Review by A.S. at The New York Times, October 3, 1935
  2. ^ Solomon p. 359

Bibliography

  • Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915–1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.

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