It Started with Eve

It Started with Eve

90 mins | Comedy, Romance | Sept. 26, 1941

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.

It Started with Eve

90 mins | Comedy, Romance | Sept. 26, 1941

It Started with Eve
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Universal Pictures
Original title It Started with Eve
Directors Henry Koster, Phil Karlson
Writers Leo Townsend, Norman Krasna, Hanns Kräly

Cast

Deanna Durbin

as Anne Terry

Charles Laughton

as Jonathan Reynolds

Robert Cummings

as Johnny Reynolds Jr.

Guy Kibbee

as Bishop Maxwell

Margaret Tallichet

as Gloria Pennington

Catherine Doucet

as Mrs. Pennington

Walter Catlett

as Dr. Harvey

Charles Coleman

as Roberts

Leonard Elliott

as Henry Stebbins

Irving Bacon

as Raven

Gus Schilling

as Raven

Wade Boteler

as Harry - Newspaper Editor

Dorothea Kent

as Jackie Donovan

Clara Blandick

as Nurse

John Banner

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Wilson Benge

as Williams (uncredited)

Chick Chandler

as Frank (uncredited)

John Eldredge

as Hotel Desk Manager (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Mary Gordon

as Mrs. O'Toole (uncredited)

John Hamilton

as Thomas - Headwaiter (uncredited)

Rosalind Ivan

as Mrs. Mulligan (uncredited)

George J. Lewis

as Maitre d' (uncredited)

Marie McDonald

as Cigarette Girl (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

as Mr. Duncan (uncredited)

Mantan Moreland

as Railway Porter (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Broderick O'Farrell

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Paul Porcasi

as Armand (uncredited)

Charlotte Treadway

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Ray Walker

as Slim - Reporter (uncredited)

Lucille Ward

as Nurse (uncredited)

Sonia Darrin

as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)