I Dream Too Much ( Romance Musical )

I Dream Too Much (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Romance Musical
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
97 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1935 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Cromwell

Written By:
Elsie Finn
James Gow

Actors:
Lily Pons ..... Annette Monard
Henry Fonda ..... 'Johnny' Street
Eric Blore ..... Roger Briggs
Osgood Perkins ..... Paul Darcy
Lucien Littlefield ..... Hubert Dilley
Lucille Ball ..... Gwendolyn Dilley
Mischa Auer ..... Darcy's Pianist
Paul Porcasi ..... Uncle Tito
Scotty Beckett ..... Boy on Carousel

Synopsis:

Jonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and does the cooking and cleaning. To get his music published, Annette takes it to Paul and he is won over - by her voice and not the music. So he manages her career and she becomes a star as an opera singer everywhere she goes. Since Jonathan cannot sell anything he writes, he leaves Annette and that makes Annette sad as she wants only to be his wife.

If Columbia could make an acceptable movie star out of opera-diva Grace Moore, then RKO Radio could do the same with Lily Pons. At least that was producer Pandro S. Berman's reasoning when he cast PONS in the 1935 musical romance I Dream too Much. The actress plays Annette, a rural French musical student who marries struggling American composer Jonathan (Henry Fonda). Possessed of a splendid singing voice, our heroine rises to fame on the opera stage, while poor Jonathan continues struggling, supporting himself as a tour guide. Annette eventually saves her marriage by transforming her husband's 'masterpiece,' a rather turgid modernistic opera, into a light-hearted musical comedy. Lucille Ball, who'd later co-star with Henry Fonda in The Big Street and Yours, Mine and Ours, has a funny minor role as a gum-snapping tourist. Though Lily Pons was at least 10 years older than Fonda, they make an attractive and believable screen couple, adding credibility to this somewhat contrived yarn. And of course, Lily Pons is seen and heard to excellent advantage in a variety of solos, both brand-new (courtesy of Jerome Kern) and classical: In the closing production number, the svelte Ms. PONS is alluringly garbed in a revealing oriental costume, proving once and for all that women did have belly-buttons back in 1935!

A French opera singer (Lily Pons) becomes famous, and her composer husband (Henry Fonda) resents it.

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