Two future Oscar winning actresses grace the cast of My Love Come Back, a pleasant lightweight comedy from Warner Brothers. It is ironic that both Olivia DeHavilland and Jane Wyman would have to leave Warner Brothers in order to get serious roles on a continuing basis. Olivia was in continual battle with Jack Warner for those parts and at this point no one was taking Jane seriously enough, her being always cast as the heroine's best friend. That this was a film originally meant for Priscilla Lane and when she proved unavailable, Jack Warner ordered DeHavilland into the film.
The film concerns a phenomenon of the time, swing bands playing swing versions of the classics. DeHavilland is a violin prodigy at a prestigious music school and is ready to be tossed out on her classic when millionaire and music buff Charles Winninger takes an interest in her case. He provides some laundered scholarship money, but when it's discovered he's doing so everyone misinterprets Winninger's motives. Not the least of which are Winninger's children Ann Gillis and William T. Orr and Jeffrey Lynn his Vice President at his music publishing business. Only wife Spring Byington keeps a cool head about her and talk about unusual casting.
Wyman and Eddie Albert are fellow music students who want to start a swing band using the classics. Right around this time Larry Clinton and Freddy Martin were doing just that and populating the Hit Parade with just such material. And of course Tommy Dorsey did an unforgettable swing version of Song Of India. The film in that sense was most topical.
Add Grant Mitchell as the director of the school and S.Z. Sakall as, what else, the old music master from the old country and you've got a really outstanding cast that lifts the material in My Love Come Back quite a bit beyond what it is. It's a good comedy, but not where a couple of actresses named DeHavilland and Wyman wanted to be at this point in their careers.
The film concerns a phenomenon of the time, swing bands playing swing versions of the classics. DeHavilland is a violin prodigy at a prestigious music school and is ready to be tossed out on her classic when millionaire and music buff Charles Winninger takes an interest in her case. He provides some laundered scholarship money, but when it's discovered he's doing so everyone misinterprets Winninger's motives. Not the least of which are Winninger's children Ann Gillis and William T. Orr and Jeffrey Lynn his Vice President at his music publishing business. Only wife Spring Byington keeps a cool head about her and talk about unusual casting.
Wyman and Eddie Albert are fellow music students who want to start a swing band using the classics. Right around this time Larry Clinton and Freddy Martin were doing just that and populating the Hit Parade with just such material. And of course Tommy Dorsey did an unforgettable swing version of Song Of India. The film in that sense was most topical.
Add Grant Mitchell as the director of the school and S.Z. Sakall as, what else, the old music master from the old country and you've got a really outstanding cast that lifts the material in My Love Come Back quite a bit beyond what it is. It's a good comedy, but not where a couple of actresses named DeHavilland and Wyman wanted to be at this point in their careers.