Second Fiddle (1939 film)
- Sonja Henie: Trudi Hovland
- Tyrone Power: Jimmy Sutton
- Rudy Vallee: Roger Maxwell
- Edna May Oliver: Phoebe
- Minna Gombell: Jenny
- Mary Healy: Jean Varick
- Lyle Talbot: Willie Hogger
- Alan Dinehart: George Whitney
- Spencer Charters: Joe Clayton
- George Chandler: Taxi driver
- Irving Bacon: First Justice of the Peace
- Maurice Cass: Second Justice of the Peace
Second Fiddle (also: Irving Berlin 's Second Fiddle ) is an American Eisrevuefilm with Sonja Henie and Tyrone Power from 1939 was directed by Sidney Lanfield. . All three had worked together in 1937 on Thin Ice.
Action
Trudi Hovland is a teacher in Minnesota and is discovered by the press agent Jimmy Sutton, who seeks the ideal casting of the female lead role in the film adaptation of the bestselling book The Girl From the North for years one day. Trudi is the 426te candidate and get at the end of the role. To make Trudi known in the press, Jimmy staged an alleged romance with Trudi's co-star and Hollywood idol Roger Maxwell. The Trudi takes the game promptly at face value and falls in love with Roger, which leads to some complications. At the end Trudi recognizes, however, who really loves her and she married Jimmy.
Background
The Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie started after the end of their unprecedented winning streak with three Olympic victories, ten World Cup titles and six European Championship titles in 1936 a very successful career in film. As the star of specially tailored to their talent Eisrevuefilmen like Thin Ice Henie had risen to become one of the biggest female stars of the studio 20th Century Fox and collected fees of $ 125,000 per film and the assurance of the so-called First Billing, after which her name before each other actor would announced.
The studio developed for Stephenie has its special shape of the revue film with spectacular show deposits in the form of ice shows. This required a special camera designed to accommodate the extremely fast movements of the skaters without distortion. In addition, it was necessary to prepare the ice for the revue scenes especially. To a top layer was applied by milchfarbenem ice to facilitate recording. Also always had a very thin film of water to ensure there could only be so prevents ice cubes flung around during braking maneuvers and quick turns and recording spoiled.
Second Fiddle takes in the action all sorts of allusions to the years of intensive search of all America for the ideal choice for the role of Scarlett O'Hara for the film adaptation of the sensational bestseller Gone with the Wind.
Marriage came the movie in the rental, he had various working titles, including Cupid Goes to Press, Heart Interests, Love Is Tops and When Winter Comes. First, Don Ameche was considered for the role of Jimmy Sutton, but the filming of The Story of Alexander Graham Bell were delayed. At the end took over Tyrone Power, then the biggest male star of the studio, the Part He and Stephenie had worked together in 1937 at Thin Ice. As a director, Walter Lang should first start the implementation, before he exchanged with Sidney Lanfield, who instead took over Lang's work on the Shirley Temple film Susannah of the Mounties.
The official title of the movie is Irving Berlin 's Second Fiddle.
Criticism
Most critics found the substance amusing, thought the idea of Henie as a teacher with a strong Norwegian accent, however implausible.
The New York Times was in the end quite harsh with their vote and called the film " just OK " (no better than a faint "fair" ).
Awards
Second Fiddle received at the Oscar ceremony in 1940 a nomination in the category:
- Best Song ( Irving Berlin I Poured My Heart Into a Song )