I dance in your heart

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Movie
German title I dance in your heart
Original title Ladies of the Chorus
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1948
length 61 minutes
Rod
Director Phil Karlson
script Harry Sauber
Joseph Carole
production Harry A. Rom
for Columbia Pictures
music Mischa Bakaleinikoff
camera Frank Redman
cut Richard Fantl
occupation

I dance in your heart is an American musical adaptation by Phil Karlson from 1948 and the third film by Marilyn Monroe . In the B-movie she played the lead role for the first time and also appeared as a singer.

The film is not to be confused with the musical I dance myself into your heart with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the leading roles.

action

Peggy Martin and her mother Mae work together as revue girls in New York . Mae is careful to keep admirers away from Peggy and forbids such meetings, which the star of the revue Bubbles LaRue in particular wants to organize for Peggy over and over again. Peggy, in turn, feels controlled by her mother. But when Bubbles makes fun of Mae, because her best days are long behind, Peggy starts a fight with her. As a result, Bubbles quits the Revue. When Mae, who is plagued by joint pain, is supposed to take her place, she sends her daughter on stage.

Peggy is soon known as the "Queen of Revue" and regularly receives orchids from an unknown admirer . On one of the unsigned business cards she recognizes the name of the flower shop and waits curiously for her admirer without Mae knowing about it. Behind the admirer hides the rich Randy Caroll from Cleveland . Both become a couple. A short time later, however, Peggy only wants to accept a marriage proposal from Randy if Randy gets Mae's approval. This reveals her life story to him: She was, then considered Queen of the Revue, in love with a rich politician. After much hesitation, she married him, but his family knew nothing about her job. She was already pregnant with Peggy when her in-laws found out about her job, treated her badly from then on, and ended up having the marriage annulled. Mae, in turn, went back to New York and started over. Instead of being a star, she now works as one of many girls. She wanted to spare Peggy all this. Mae agrees to the marriage provided that Randy informs his family about Peggy's job beforehand. Randy, however, can not bring himself to this despite the promise to Mae, but hopes to be able to convince his mother with the good character of Mae and Peggy.

He invites them both to Cleveland and explains his dilemma to them. The Martins' game of hide and seek works until a musician names Peggy the Queen of the Revue at the engagement party for Randy and Peggy. Mae and Peggy flee to their room and the company reacts horrified. Only Randy's mother saves the situation, because the love between Peggy and Randy is important to her: She presents a revue hit on the piano and declares that she used to be a revue star herself. Though not true, those present immediately change their minds and Randy and Peggy become an accepted couple. There is also a happy ending for Mae: her stage partner Bill, who was only Uncle Billy to Peggy, has always loved her, but accepted her decision to marry the politician. Now Mae realizes that Bill, who is also present at the engagement party and accompanies Randy's mother on the piano, is also her great love.

background

Marilyn Monroe had made two films before I dance into your heart . Your scenes in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! from 1948 had been cut out of the film except for a very brief appearance, in Dangerous Years she was seen in a small supporting role as a waitress. Her contract with 20th Century Fox was not renewed after the two roles and in March 1948 Monroe signed a contract with Columbia. In the musical, which was shot on a budget in less than two weeks, she played a leading role and was named second in the cast list after Adele Jergens. It remained her only film with Columbia. I dance in your heart is considered one of the company's numerous B-films and is now a “forgotten Columbia musical”. The film premiered on October 22, 1948. On December 31, 1995, it was shown for the first time in Germany on the TV channel Super RTL .

Marilyn Monroe sings three songs in the film: As part of the choir, she can be heard in Ladies of the Chorus ; She has solo appearances with the titles Anyone Can See I Love You and Every Baby Needs A Da-Da-Daddy . The latter song was reused by Columbia in 1952 for the film Okinawa .

criticism

The critics rated Marilyn Monroe's performance as good: “One of the great things about the film is Miss Monroe's singing. She is pretty and shows - with a pleasant voice and charisma - very promising talent ”. Other critics described Marilyn Monroe's performance as "competent" and too good to be of much use in the B-movie.

The criticism described I dance in your heart as “pure routine work, although [the film] has the same value as a skilfully staged one. […] Even if it didn't offer much else, it showed how unusually photogenic Marilyn was. ”The lexicon of international films saw in I dance in your heart a“ small musical, remarkable thanks to Marilyn Monroe in her first major role . "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donald Spoto: Marilyn Monroe. The biography . Heyne, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-453-08276-1 , p. 140.
  2. ↑ John Kobal (Ed.): Marilyn Monroe . Taschen, Cologne 1985, p. 42.
  3. ↑ John Kobal (Ed.): Marilyn Monroe . Taschen, Cologne 1985, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Tibor Krekes in Motion Picture Herald . Quoted from Joan Mellen: Marilyn Monroe. Your films - your life . Heyne, Munich 1997, p. 172.
  5. ↑ Joan Mellen: Marilyn Monroe. Your films - your life . Heyne, Munich 1997, p. 30.
  6. ↑ Joan Mellen: Marilyn Monroe. Your films - your life . Heyne, Munich 1997, pp. 83-84.
  7. ↑ I dance into your heart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used