Friday, February 10, 2012

Second Fiddle (1939)


Academy Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1940 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song
Irving Berlin
For the song "I Poured My Heart Into a Song"

Twentieth Century-Fox
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, Fox)
(Turner Classic Movies)

Manufactured Hollywood nonsense about a schoolteacher in Minnesota picked to star in the next big movie production. Tyrone Power is the publicity agent sent to the snowy town where Sonja Henie spends her time ice skating with little kids. In Hollywood, he fabricates a romance with crooner Rudy Vallee to generate newspaper gossip. Somebody forgot to tell Sonja it wasn't real, and she goes crying back to Minnesota when she finds out. Don't worry, Tyrone is in love with her, for real!

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