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Spring Is Here

  • 1930
  • Passed
  • 1h 9m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
5,5/10
344
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Bernice Claire, Louise Fazenda, and Ford Sterling in Spring Is Here (1930)
ComédieComédie musicaleDrameRomanceComédie romantiqueLe passage à l’âge adulte

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueBetty dates Terry but gets attracted to Steve, the new guy in town. Despite her father favoring Terry, she's unsure of her feelings. Her mom Emily and sister Mary Jane help Terry prove he's ... Tout lireBetty dates Terry but gets attracted to Steve, the new guy in town. Despite her father favoring Terry, she's unsure of her feelings. Her mom Emily and sister Mary Jane help Terry prove he's her true love.Betty dates Terry but gets attracted to Steve, the new guy in town. Despite her father favoring Terry, she's unsure of her feelings. Her mom Emily and sister Mary Jane help Terry prove he's her true love.

  • Director
    • John Francis Dillon
  • Writers
    • Owen Davis
    • Jimmy Starr
  • Stars
    • Lawrence Gray
    • Alexander Gray
    • Bernice Claire
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  • ÉVALUATION IMDb
    5,5/10
    344
    MA NOTE
    • Director
      • John Francis Dillon
    • Writers
      • Owen Davis
      • Jimmy Starr
    • Stars
      • Lawrence Gray
      • Alexander Gray
      • Bernice Claire
    • 20Commentaires d'utilisateurs
    • 2Commentaires de critiques
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    Rôles principaux19

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    Lawrence Gray
    Lawrence Gray
    • Steve Alden
    Alexander Gray
    Alexander Gray
    • Terry Clayton
    Bernice Claire
    Bernice Claire
    • Betty Braley
    Louise Fazenda
    Louise Fazenda
    • Emily Braley
    Ford Sterling
    Ford Sterling
    • Peter Braley
    Inez Courtney
    Inez Courtney
    • Mary Jane Braley
    Frank Albertson
    Frank Albertson
    • Stacy Adams
    Natalie Moorhead
    Natalie Moorhead
    • Rita Conway
    Wilson Benge
    Wilson Benge
    • Winnie - the Braleys' Butler
    • (uncredited)
    Brox Sisters
    Brox Sisters
    • Singing Trio
    • (uncredited)
    Bobbe Brox
    • Singer in Brox Sisters Trio
    • (uncredited)
    Kathlyn Brox
    • Singer in Brox Sisters Trio
    • (uncredited)
    Lorayne Brox
    • Singer in Brox Sisters Trio
    • (uncredited)
    Ruth Eddings
    Ruth Eddings
    • Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Bess Flowers
    Bess Flowers
    • Bess - Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Isabelle Keith
    Isabelle Keith
    • Blonde Party Guest with Bess
    • (uncredited)
    Wilbur Mack
    Wilbur Mack
    • Mr. Randall - The Minister
    • (uncredited)
    Alexander Pollard
    Alexander Pollard
    • Server
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • John Francis Dillon
    • Writers
      • Owen Davis
      • Jimmy Starr
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    6ptb-8

    Rogers and Hart delight

    This is seems to me to be a very true adaptation of a Broadway musical of the late 20s, filmed in quite a static way with the characters lined across the screen playing it exactly as if they were also across the stage bellowing lines into each other's faces so the back row could hear it. Given this performance is for a film it seems nobody thought to re direct it for a cinema audience who could hear every word courtesy of fantastic chunky Vitaphone gramophone sound. There is no doubt the dippy parents and flapper daughters play it well to the audience who even might have been expecting a play on film. SPRING IS HERE is quite funny, very stage bound and completely what we expect 80 years later: stodgy comedy, vaudeville mugging wonderful Rogers and Hart music all flattened into the technical aspects of the time. This film is a curiosity piece really, and would irritate your friends who do not understand that it is the restrictions of the medium of the time that makes a film like this attractive to those who love 1920s sound films. Beautiful clothes and sets add to the fun; but do not inflict this film on anyone not familiar with the time tone and tinniness. Maybe play the scenes of just the songs, as they are terrific. No wonder the talkies took off, but you can also see why depression audiences soon tired of songs being yelled at them.
    4lugonian

    Two Loves Has Betty

    SPRING IS HERE (First National Pictures, 1930), produced and directed by John Francis Dillon, is a surprisingly entertaining early sound musical comedy taken from the story by Owen Davis Jr., and stage musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, who also composed the songs. Though headed by two Gray actors, Lawrence and Alexander (no relation), the plot very well belongs to the third billed Bernice Claire, a talented young singer in her day with few film credits to her name. Most noted for her screen pairing with Alexander Gray, a baritone singer, in both feature-length (1929-30) and later 20-minute musical short subjects (1934), SPRING IS HERE, their second collaboration, is believed to be their only surviving musical feature film.

    Opening title: "The Peter Bealey Home on Long Island's fashionable North Shore - a morning in June." The domestic comedy set to song interludes revolves around Betty Bealey (Bernice Claire), a free-spirited young lady whose father, Peter (Ford Sterling), disapproves of her being out all night and sleeping in all day. After returning home at 5 a.m., Peter draws the line of his daughter's carefree activities. Aside from coping with his younger daughter, Mary Jane (Inez Courtney), and her courtship with Stacey Hayden (Frank Albertson), along with his ditsy but squeaky speaking wife, Emily (Louise Fazenda), Peter disapproves of Betty's latest beau, Steve Alden (Lawrence Gray), whom she's only known a short time. Hoping she'd settle down and get married, Peter tries his best to encourage Betty into marrying Terry Clayton (Alexander Gray), a clumsy but shy young man with some sense, unaware that Steve who comes from a wealthy family.

    Through its brief 68 minutes, SPRING IS HERE contains enough songs for a 90 minute feature, including that of: "Spring is Here" (sung by Frank Albertson and Inez Courtney); "Yours Sincerely" (sung by Alexander Gray and Bernice Claire); "Bad Baby" (sung by Inez Courtney); "Crying for the Carolines" (sung by The Brox Sisters during party sequence); "With a Song in My Heart" (sung by Lawrence Gray and Bernice Claire); "Having a Little Faith in Me" (sung by Alexander Gray); "How Shall I Tell?" (sung by Bernice Claire/ written by Sam Lewis, Joe Young and Harry Warren); "What's the Big Idea?" (sung by Inez Courtney and Frank Albertson); and "With a Song in My Heart" (sung by Gray and Claire). Of the selection of songs, many which are quite good if not everlasting to memory. Only "With a Song in My Heart" is the most familiar, considering how it's been immortalized in the musical biography, WITH A SONG IN MY HEART (20th Century-Fox, 1952) starring Susan Hayward as famed singer, Jane Froman.

    While the other Gray-Claire screen collaborations of NO, NO NANETTE (1929) and SONG OF THE FLAME (1930) have been lost to revivals, SPRING IS HERE, survived intact, giving film buffs some basic idea of their work and on-screen chemistry. Other than noting how Claire wears two different hairstyles at once (hair covering the left side of her face and hair combed back on her right side, exposing both face and ear), it's also easy for anyone who missed seeing Claire's name in the opening credits, to somehow mistake her for a youthful, dark-haired Penny Singleton (then performing under her real name of Dorothy McNulty), the same Singleton years before her acclaim in the long-running "Blondie" movie series (1938-1950) for Columbia. Claire also quotes one interesting line worth noting, "A woman is as strong as her weakest moment." As for Alexander Gray, it's worth mentioning how his talking manner and singing differ, from mildly speaking to rich baritone voice. It's a wonder how much further the careers of Gray and Claire might have gone had musicals not fallen out of favor for public acceptance by the end of 1930.

    Aside from some surprisingly risqué dialog and funny nifty comebacks during moments of comedy, there's also some very amusing scenes provided by the frustrated Ford Sterling and scatterbrained Louise Fazenda, former comics of silent comedy shorts whose characters here seem to precede that of Archie and Edith Bunker from the classic "All in the Family" TV series of the seventies. There's also Inez Courtney giving a sassy performance for comedy relief so reminiscent to the then notable Warner Brothers comedienne of Winnie Lightner. Other members of the cast include Natalie Moorehead as Rita Conway, and Gretchen Thomas as Maude, among others.

    SPRING IS HERE, while no masterpiece, gets by on both comedy and sometimes corny musical interludes. Let's not overlook the legendary "With a Song in My Heart" (which is scored during the opening credits) which highlights the film. Regardless of its age, this musical antique is a worthy rediscovery and something to consider whenever it turns up on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel. Spring is here. (**1/2)
    7AlsExGal

    Thoroughly delightful...

    ...-and short!-adaptation of Rodgers & Hart's Broadway success (the movie adds some songs by Harry Warren and lyricists Sam Lewis and Joe Young). And I admit my affinity for such a movie probably springs from my curiosity regarding early sound musicals, so your mileage -and appreciation - may vary.

    Alexander Gray is well cast as the hero, coming across rather more relaxed here than he did in the previous year's Sally; the engaging Bernice Claire also stars as one of the era's stock characters, the young woman yearning for excitement. Lawrence Gray plays-much as he did in The Patsy-the good-natured bad boy enticing our heroine from her too-meek suitor, and gets to bestow his pleasant light tenor on the score's most enduring hit, "With a Song in My Heart."

    I'm having difficulty tracking down a detailed description of the story of the original Broadway show; but it appears to me that there must have been a subplot in the Broadway show involving the younger sister (in the movie, played by Inez Courtney) and her beau (the movie's Frank Albertson) which was subsequently cut for the movie, as Albertson's role serves no purpose plot-wise in the movie (but he contributes some sprightly song and dance, notably-with Courtney-the title song). All of this is cheerfully entertaining and well-done, if somewhat standard fare; elevating the movie into must-see status, however, are Mack Sennett veterans Ford Sterling and Louise Fazenda as the much-tried comic parents. Sterling, who always completely inhabits whatever role he plays-OK, he hams it up (but all to the good)!-has been underappreciated for about three-quarters of a century or more, and is long overdue for a renaissance of interest, for his early work as well as his late work.

    The Brox Sisters give a wonderful rendition of "Cryin' for the Carolines." Direction and camera-work are workmanlike-skillful if uninspired; but the writing is clever and blithe, and sometimes refreshingly suggestive. Recommended. I'm surprised that the stage show Spring Is Here has not been a regular on the community theater and civic light opera circuit; cheerful, undemanding, modest in its production needs, uncontroversial, with familiar theatrical "types," it seems to be tailor-made for semi-professional offerings.
    5webmasterbob

    Music for this Film

    Actually, the songs for this film; Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (For Somebody Else), Bad Baby, Cryin' For The Carolines, Have A Little Faith In Me, How Shall I Tell?, What's The Big Idea? were not written by R&H but by Harry Warren.

    This was Harry's big break into Hollywood songwriting for the silver screen. Due to the success of his music in this film, Harry Warren was brought out to Hollywood for a second film, "42nd Street", which is by and large considered to be the "grand daddy of all musicals".

    Harry then left Tin Pan Alley, and signed on to write the music for another 32 Warner Brothers films. Many of these were co-written with Al Dubin, and then later on with Johnny Mercer.

    In the end, this was the first film that Harry wrote music for. He went on to be the most successful songwriter in Hollywood, and that success propelled him to the top of the pop charts as well, writing 81 top ten hits, along with eleven Oscar nominations for best song.
    7creightonhale

    Breezy Musical, Standout Fazenda

    SPRING IS HERE is a breezy, yet undistinguished early sound musical. A hit on Broadway, it suffers from the overproduction of musicals at the time (meaning it received no special consideration during its making) and from a director who brings no visual flair to the medium. What we're left with are pleasant performers and pleasant, if not memorable, tunes. The standout performance here is given by Louise Fazenda, a ubiquitous figure in these early sound musicals made at Warners. Her portrayal of a character who is simultaneously embarrassed and titillated at the innuendo surrounding her is delightful and captures the necessarily frivolous tone needed in such a piece. Incidentally, Fazenda was the first in the sound era to portray the dumb blonde, an archetype that still pleases to this day.

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    • Anecdotes
      This production marked the first time that a musical work by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Harry Warren was used in a film.
    • Gaffes
      Composer Richard Rodgers' name was incorrectly spelled as "Rogers" in the main title credits.
    • Citations

      Peter Braley: And Terry, you be generous to Betty.

      Terry Clayton: Oh, yes sir.

      Peter Braley: Because the more a man gives his wife, the sooner she gets it all and stops bothering you.

    • Connexions
      Version of Yours Sincerely (1933)
    • Bandes originales
      With a Song in My Heart
      (1929) (uncredited)

      Music by Richard Rodgers

      Lyrics by Lorenz Hart

      Played during the opening credits and at the end

      Performed by Lawrence Gray and Bernice Claire

      Reprised by Alexander Gray and Bernice Claire

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 13 avril 1930 (United States)
    • Pays d’origine
      • United States
    • Langue
      • English
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Chegou a Primavera
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, Californie, États-Unis(Studio)
    • société de production
      • First National Pictures
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      1 heure 9 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White

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