Her First Romance
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Edward Dmytryk
Edith Fellows
Wilbur Evans
Jacqueline Wells
Alan Ladd
Judith Linden
Film Details
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Synopsis
Linda Strong, a bookish, frumpy co-ed, is invited to a formal dance as a sorority pledge initiation prank. Her selfish stepsister and guardian, Eileen, refuses to buy Linda a dress and decides that she is too young to attend. Katy, the cook, buys Linda a dress and with the help of Linda's cousin, Marian, conspires to get Linda to the dance. When Linda's friend Suzy tells her that she was invited as a prank, however, she refuses to go to the dance. Without her glasses and wearing stylish clothes, Linda is quite attractive, but she still rejects all the invitations from the fraternity brothers. She is crying outside the house when Chicago opera star Philip Niles arrives and offers to escort her to the dance. Eileen is at the dance with her fiancé John Gilman, who was Marian's boyfriend until Eileen stole him away. At the party, Linda is a great success, much to Eileen's dismay. When Niles is called upon to sing, he asks Linda to join him in a duet. Eileen feigns interest in Linda's career to have an opportunity to meet Niles, and to spite her stepsister, Linda arranges a picnic for Niles to meet Marian. Marian, who is still in love with John, suggests that Linda date Niles herself, prompting Linda to borrow Eileen's book on how to get a man. After finding the book, Niles feigns interest in Eileen, who dumps John. John then realizes that he loves Marian, and they marry. Linda is convinced that Niles has proposed to Eileen, but he has actually asked her permission as Linda's guardian to marry Linda. When Eileen refuses, Niles goes to Linda to explain what happened and promises to return to marry her when she turns eighteen.
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Cast
Edith Fellows
Wilbur Evans
Jacqueline Wells
Alan Ladd
Judith Linden
Roger Daniel
Marion Kerby
Marlo Dwyer
Ottola Nesmith
Ray Hirsch
Alexandria Moreland
Julie Sheldon
John Adamson
Crew
Al Alt
S. Charles Caine
I. E. Chadwick
Adele Comandini
Stephen Foster
Edvard Grieg
Warren Leonard
John Mescall
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Gregory Stone
Gregory Stone
Peter Ilyich Tchaikowsky
G. C. Van Marter
Herman Wohl
William Ziegler
Karl Zint
Film Details
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The working title of this film was Her Father's Daughter. A Hollywood Reporter production chart includes Ann Doran, David Durand and Edwin Brian in the cast, but their participation in the final film has not been confirmed. This picture, reissued for television as The Right Man, marked baritone Wilbur Evans film debut. In the reissue print, the names of Alan Ladd, Edith Fellows, Wilbur Evans and Julie Bishop (the name used by actress Jacqueline Wells from 1941 on) appeared above the title.
