Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Photographers in Movies

Ed Sullivan worked as a columnist in the 1930's. He got the idea for a movie and submitted the story to a Hollywood studio, naming his movie "There Goes My Heart". The movie was made and released in 1938. It starred Fredric March as a reporter trying to get a photo of an heiress played by Virginia Bruce. He misses the chance as she sneaks away from her yacht, wanting to be on her own in the real world. She gets a job at a department store and makes some new friends. One scene shows her at an ice skating rink, where she wins some sort of skating competition. Remember, this is a screwball/romantic comedy, it does not have to make sense. A newspaper photographer still trying to get the photo uses what appears to be a 4x5 Speed Graphic on a tripod to take her photo. An excited spectator knocks his camera over(I think it is Fredric March as the reporter). In the film, the knocked over camera is never shown, just the photographer upset by what happens.







The reporter falls in love with the heiress and at the end they live happily ever after, as they used to say!



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