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Wow! Such a good movie.

How sad is this?

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Other than traditional late 1930's movie values not necessarily for folks not fond of this nostalgic nosegay category, one of the funniest. Nonsense at a retail chain heats up when the runaway heiress to the chain, chased by her grandfather unaware of where she is, and by a hard boiled reporter who has figured it out, is supported by a wonderful cast of screwball nuts outdone only by a superb Virginia Bruce and Frederic March as the heiress and reporter. You expect to see some scenes of the heiress surrounded by her family's luxury, the heroine and hero and heroine separately playing non romantic sequences in their underwear, physical comedy snuck in at every turn whether it forwards the story or not, and THE END practically flashed on the screen before the hero and heroine can get married. Despite this, the film holds your attention and keeps you laughing.

If you believe films like "There Goes My Heart," every gal with money wanted to be poor in the 1930s and ran away from home. Thanks to the huge success of "It Happened One Night," the ambitious reporter-newsworthy heiress angle, the heiress disguised as a commoner, etc., was done over and over again - this film, "Love is News," "Bright Lights," "Anything Goes," "They Wanted to Marry," "Love on the Run" - I could go on.Now we have "There Goes My Heart," where a young heiress (Virginia Bruce) gets away from her overprotective grandfather and escapes to New York. There, she meets a young woman (Patsy Kelly) who offers to share her apartment and helps her get a department store job. Meanwhile, a newspaperman (Fredric March) is on the story, but doesn't tell Bruce who he is.As others have pointed out, Virginia Bruce, though lovely, was no screwball comedy star. Here she's in a Carole Lombard role. Patsy Kelly for me always gave a large, loud stage performance. She's very funny in this; other times I've found her annoying. Fredric March is quite relaxed in his role, and Eugene Palette is effective as the stereotypical editor who's always angry at his reporter. Harry Langdon has a nice cameo at the end.There are some good scenes in this film, particularly the ice skating sequence, and Kelly's attempts to demonstrate the "Vibrato" exercise machine. The drunk scene between Palette, March, and Arthur Lake is good, too."There Goes My Heart" is filled with wonderful actors like Alan Mowbray and Marjorie Main, plus the aforementioned Langdom and Lake. It doesn't try to be more than it is, and it's successful in his own right if you don't expect too much.

Sometimes getting up way too early pays a few dividends. I want to say that watching this Frederic March vehicle was one of those dividends, but that would be somewhat inaccurate. I wanted to be paid for watching this film, but no luck there !! March as a performing actor has always been something of a mystery to me as a film aficionado. His abilities have always reminded me some of one of my other favorites from this era, Dick Powell. With March, in a role in a film, there's always the sense that there is something important happening inside his skull, behind his eyes, behind his manners and demeanor. The best parts of this film are those flashes where March does seem to be thinking about something big and yet talking about something small.This is a film about trying to resolve "class envy" in the 1930s, and in that regard it has a political subtext. Yet that subtext is obscured in the way the film was put together. It's definitely not in the same league with Gable and Colbert in "It Happened One Night." The reason that it isn't, is fairly obvious: after seeing this movie I had to ask myself -- what was their rush to get through this story ? The general plot device of "It Happened ..." was a winner, and it seems evident that with skilled players like March and Eugene Palette, this film could have been a winner, too, as both a comic romp and a socially aware satire. Yet it is evident that these great players were simply not given enough time or the right material to evoke such a satire.Because there are great flashes of brilliance held in this otherwise dreadful rehash of other plots, I registered a vote of five, for the film. It's not a waste of time at all, for the true film buff, or for the fans of Frederic March and Virginia Bruce and so on ....Then again, where this film promises a banquet, it only delivers a sandwich, and that's served without the sweet pickles.

After all the negative things I have heard said about this film, I was expecting something very...I don't know...boring, silly, empty. But I must say I was more than pleasantly surprised with it and I did enjoy it. I watched it because I just discovered Fredric March, and have watched over 30 of his films now. I must say that this film in no way provided him to display his marvelous acting skill, but still it was nice to see him do this bit of light comedy. I think the story is nice when you want to watch something that is not heavy, but lighthearted and fun with the usual 1930's "happily ever after" ending. It is something my children would enjoy. Don't have much else to say, except if you like Fredric as much as I do, you will like this film. Too bad he only gave one kiss in this one!!