There Goes My Girl
Brief Synopsis
A newspaper editor tries to stop his star reporter from marrying.
Cast & Crew
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Ben Holmes
Director
Gene Raymond
Jerry Martin
Ann Sothern
Connie Taylor
Gordon Jones
Dunn
Richard Lane
Tim J. Whalen
Frank Jenks
Frank Tate
Film Details
Also Known As
Women Are Poison
Genre
Comedy
Release Date
May
21,
1937
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Distribution Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 14m
Sound
Mono (RCA Victor System)
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Film Length
8 reels
Synopsis
Although ace reporter Connie Taylor has quit her newspaper job in order to marry rival reporter Jerry Martin, she is unable to resist covering a shooting that has been staged by her hard-nosed editor, Tim J. Whalen, and chases after the "killer" in her wedding gown. Disgusted by his fiancée's addiction to the "good story," Jerry breaks their engagement and leaves town. When Connie later discovers Whalen's subterfuge, she denounces him and tries without success to reconcile with Jerry. Determined to salvage her love life, Connie resists Whalen's pleas to cover a high society murder case in Bridgeport until she hears that Jerry has been sent there by his newspaper. Backed by Whalen's unlimited expense account, which she plans to use to finance her honeymoon, Connie accepts the assignment and goes to Bridgeport. Outside of the Bridgeport jail, she bumps into a still angry Jerry, who has just interviewed Dan Curtis, the prime suspect in the murder case. Connie then tracks Jerry to a nightclub, where Dan's girl friend, Margot Whitney, works as a dancer. After the club's owner, Joe Rethburn, forcibly prevents Jerry from talking with Margot, Jerry arranges for the dancer to slip him a note from her hotel room. Just as Jerry receives Margot's tip to watch Grace Andrews, the murder victim's widow, Connie observes the woman enter the nightclub in an agitated state and follows her to Rethburn's office. There Grace argues with Rethburn about money and reveals not only their adultery but their mutual participation in her husband's death as well. Connie follows Grace to her apartment and arrives in time to see Rethburn's head waiter shoot the widow and to hear her dying damnation of Rethburn. Before Connie can contact the police, the waiter fires at her and wounds her in the shoulder. Eventually Jerry arrives on the scene and is striken by the sight of the injured Connie, who has since identified the killers to the police. After the couple reunites, Jerry helps Connie write her story and delivers the column to Whalen. The next morning, Connie and Jerry are both stunned to see the story printed in Jerry's newspaper with his by-line above it, but soon deduce that the ever-conniving Whalen has made a final unsuccessful attempt to prevent his ace reporter from marrying.
Director
Ben Holmes
Director
Cast
Gene Raymond
Jerry Martin
Ann Sothern
Connie Taylor
Gordon Jones
Dunn
Richard Lane
Tim J. Whalen
Frank Jenks
Frank Tate
Bradley Page
Joe Rethburn
Joan Woodbury
Margot Whitney
Marla Shelton
Grace Andrews
Alec Craig
"Godfrey"
Joseph Crehan
Sergeant Wood
William Corson
Dan Curtis
Maxine Jennings
Miss Caldwell
Clyde Dilson
Actor
Charles Coleman
Faraday
Chester Clute
Stu
Roy James
Harry Worth
Edgar Dearing
Cop
Crew
Joseph H. August
Photography
George Beck
Story
Samuel J. Briskin
Executive Producer
Feild Gray
Art Director Associate
Kenny Holmes
Assistant Director
Desmond Marquette
Editing
Nick Musuraca
Photography
Van Nest Polglase
Art Director
Harry Segall
Screenwriter
William Sistrom
Producer
Edward Stevenson
Gowns
Vernon L. Walker
Special Effects
Earl A. Wollcott
Recording
Film Details
Also Known As
Women Are Poison
Genre
Comedy
Release Date
May
21,
1937
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Distribution Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 14m
Sound
Mono (RCA Victor System)
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Film Length
8 reels
Articles
There Goes My Girl
A newspaper editor tries to stop his star reporter from marrying.
There Goes My Girl
A newspaper editor tries to stop his star reporter from marrying.
TCM Remembers - Ann Sothern
TCM Remembers - Ann Sothern
Actress Ann Sothern passed away on March 15th at the age of 89. Her film career spanned sixty years and included a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for The Whales of August (1987) and several Emmy nominations for her roles in the TV shows Private Secretary (1953) and The Ann Sothern Show (1958). Sothern was born as Harriette Lake in North Dakota. She made her first film appearance in 1927 in small roles (so small, in fact, that some sources omit any films before 1929) before deciding to work on Broadway instead. Shortly afterwards she signed with Columbia Pictures where studio head Harry Cohn insisted she change her name because there were already too many actors with the last name of Lake. So "Ann" came from her mother's name Annette and "Sothern" from Shakespearean actor E.H. Sothern. For most of the 1930s she appeared in light comedies working with Eddie Cantor, Maurice Chevalier, Mickey Rooney and Fredric March. However, it wasn't until she switched to MGM (after a brief period with RKO) and made the film Maisie (1939) that Sothern hit pay dirt. It proved enormously popular and led to a series of nine more films through 1947 when she moved into dramas and musicals. During the 50s, Sothern made a mark with her TV series but returned to mostly second tier movies in the 1960s and 1970s. Finally she earned an Oscar nomination for her work in 1987's The Whales of August (in which, incidentally, her daughter Tisha Sterling played her at an earlier age). Turner Classic Movies plans to host a retrospective film tribute to her in July. Check back for details in June.
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Two reviews of this film state that the screenplay was based on a story by George Beck titled "Women Are Poison," which also was the working title of the picture. A Hollywood Reporter production news item states that John Grey was "assigned the screenplay" of this film. The exact nature of Gray's participation, if any, is not known. According to a pre-production Hollywood Reporter news item, Ben Holmes replaced Edward Killy as director, and Gertrude Michael and Lucille Ball were to appear in this production. Neither of these actresses appeared in the final film. A Hollywood Reporter production news item includes Margaret Morris and Billy Wayne in the cast, and Motion Picture Herald's "The Cutting Room" adds Tom Kennedy to the cast, but their participation in the final film has not been confirmed.
