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My Love Came Back Curtis Bernhardt Hugh Cummings Arthur Lueker Hal B. Wallis Wolfgang Reinhardt Jack L. Warner Ivan Goff Robert Buckner Earl Baldwin Walter Reisch Michael Hogan Rowland Leigh Olivia de Havilland Jeffrey Lynn Eddie Albert Jane Wyman Charles Winninger Spring Byington Grant Mitchell William T. Orr Ann Gillis S. Z. Sakall Charles Trowbridge Mabel Taliaferro William B. Davidson Nanette Vallon Sidney Bracy Tommy Baker William Roberts Wedgwood Nowell Jack Mower Richard Kipling Creighton Hale George Haywood John Dilson Richard Clayton
Amelia Cornell, a talented scholarship student at the Brissac Academy of Music in New York, finds that she is unable to continue her studies without outside assistance. At the same time, Dr. Kobbe, the dean of the school, prohibits Amelia from giving music lessons in her spare time, which she does in order to earn money to support her mother. Amelia finds herself on the verge of having to abandon her promising career as a swing bandplayer when she receives an unexpected scholarship, which allows her to continue her studies. After Amelia meets her patron, the kind and elderly Julius Malette, who manufactures musical equipment, he sends her a phonograph player and records to broaden her musical experience. He later invites her to several musical events. One evening, Julius is unable to keep a date with Amelia and sends his factory manager, Tony Baldwin, in his stead. Tony and Amelia soon fall in love, but Tony, who thinks that Amelia is his boss's sweetheart, does not reveal his feel
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Episode, the Austrian film on which this film was based, was directed by Walter Reisch and starred Paula Wessely and Karl Ludwig Diehl. Episode was a sequel to the Austrian film Maskerade, an American version of which was made by M-G-M in 1935 under the title Escapade (see above). Working titles for My Love Came Back were Episode, Men on Her Mind and Two Loves Have I. The film was director Kurt Bernhardt's first American film. HR production charts list cameraman James Wong Howe as the film's photographer, but his participation in the production has not been confirmed. HR production charts also list actors Elizabeth Earle and Mary Anderson in the cast, but their appearance in the released film has not been confirmed. HR pre-production news items note that Priscilla Lane was originally slated to play the female lead, and that although Fay Bainter was assigned a role in the film, she was later released from it and her remaining one-picture commitment on her Warner Bros. contract. According to an unidentified news item in the AMPAS Library clipping files, Olivia de Havilland, who left Warner Bros. following her success in Gone with the Wind and refused subsequent assignments with the studio, was assigned to the film after being "brought flouncing back by threat of suspension." According to a biography of de Havilland and her sister, Joan Fontaine, director Curtis Bernhardt encountered some difficulties in presenting de Havilland and Wyman as professional violinists. Although Wyman had no trouble faking ...

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Episode, the Austrian film on which this film was based, was directed by Walter Reisch and starred Paula Wessely and Karl Ludwig Diehl. Episode was a sequel to the Austrian film Maskerade, an American version of which was made by M-G-M in 1935 under the title Escapade (see above). Working titles for My Love Came Back were Episode, Men on Her Mind and Two Loves Have I. The film was director Kurt Bernhardt's first American film. HR production charts list cameraman James Wong Howe as the film's photographer, but his participation in the production has not been confirmed. HR production charts also list actors Elizabeth Earle and Mary Anderson in the cast, but their appearance in the released film has not been confirmed. HR pre-production news items note that Priscilla Lane was originally slated to play the female lead, and that although Fay Bainter was assigned a role in the film, she was later released from it and her remaining one-picture commitment on her Warner Bros. contract. According to an unidentified news item in the AMPAS Library clipping files, Olivia de Havilland, who left Warner Bros. following her success in Gone with the Wind and refused subsequent assignments with the studio, was assigned to the film after being "brought flouncing back by threat of suspension." According to a biography of de Havilland and her sister, Joan Fontaine, director Curtis Bernhardt encountered some difficulties in presenting de Havilland and Wyman as professional violinists. Although Wyman had no trouble faking the finger movements on a dummy violin, de Havilland apparently had no patience for it. Bernhardt attempted to disguise the problem by using a mask of de Havilland's face on a professional violinst, but the plan failed when the musician complained that she could not see or breathe through the mask. The director then thought of using a double to play the violin in semidarkness or in silhouette, but that idea was rejected when it was noted that the script called for a brightly lit classroom. Bernhardt finally solved the problem by having a professional violinist hide behind de Havilland and reach around her to perform the complicated fingering while the actress played the bow with her right hand. The file for the film in the MPAA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library contains a letter dated 22 Mar 1939, in which the PCA informed Warner Bros. that the story was "unacceptable" under the Code primarily because of the "suggestion that 'Julius Malette' is an habitual adulterer and that his illicit relationships are condoned by his wife and others." To avoid a censorship problem with the story, the PCA suggested the "removal of suggestions that Malette was a philanderer and adulterer and his hopes to make Amelia his mistress."

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Amelia Cornell, a talented scholarship student at the Brissac Academy of Music in New York, finds that she is unable to continue her studies without outside assistance. At the same time, Dr. Kobbe, the dean of the school, prohibits Amelia from giving music lessons in her spare time, which she does in order to earn money to support her mother. Amelia finds herself on the verge of having to abandon her promising career as a swing bandplayer when she receives an unexpected scholarship, which allows her to continue her studies. After Amelia meets her patron, the kind and elderly Julius Malette, who manufactures musical equipment, he sends her a phonograph player and records to broaden her musical experience. He later invites her to several musical events. One evening, Julius is unable to keep a date with Amelia and sends his factory manager, Tony Baldwin, in his stead. Tony and Amelia soon fall in love, but Tony, who thinks that Amelia is his boss's sweetheart, does not reveal his feelings toward her. Although Tony later discovers Julius' true relation to Amelia, complications arise when Julius' son Paul learns that Tony has been mailing company checks to Amelia, unaware that they were mailed at the request of his father. Paul accuses Tony of misappropriating company funds, but soon apologizes for the accusation when he overhears his father telling Amelia how much he has missed being with her. After arriving at the conclusion that his father is being unfaithful to his mother, Paul apologizes to Tony and thanks him for trying to shield his family from the news. Later, at a party at the ...

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Amelia Cornell, a talented scholarship student at the Brissac Academy of Music in New York, finds that she is unable to continue her studies without outside assistance. At the same time, Dr. Kobbe, the dean of the school, prohibits Amelia from giving music lessons in her spare time, which she does in order to earn money to support her mother. Amelia finds herself on the verge of having to abandon her promising career as a swing bandplayer when she receives an unexpected scholarship, which allows her to continue her studies. After Amelia meets her patron, the kind and elderly Julius Malette, who manufactures musical equipment, he sends her a phonograph player and records to broaden her musical experience. He later invites her to several musical events. One evening, Julius is unable to keep a date with Amelia and sends his factory manager, Tony Baldwin, in his stead. Tony and Amelia soon fall in love, but Tony, who thinks that Amelia is his boss's sweetheart, does not reveal his feelings toward her. Although Tony later discovers Julius' true relation to Amelia, complications arise when Julius' son Paul learns that Tony has been mailing company checks to Amelia, unaware that they were mailed at the request of his father. Paul accuses Tony of misappropriating company funds, but soon apologizes for the accusation when he overhears his father telling Amelia how much he has missed being with her. After arriving at the conclusion that his father is being unfaithful to his mother, Paul apologizes to Tony and thanks him for trying to shield his family from the news. Later, at a party at the Malettes, where Amelia's roommate, Joy O'Keefe, and her boyfriend, Dusty Rhodes, give a musical recital, Julius' wife settles the misunderstanding and life resumes to normal.

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