Isn't It Romantic? (film)
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| Directed by | Norman Z. McLeod |
| Produced by | Daniel Dare |
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Richard L. Breen Josef Mischel Theodore Strauss |
| Based on |
Gather Ye Rosebuds novel by Jeannette C. Nolan |
| Starring |
Veronica Lake Billy De Wolfe Mona Freeman Richard Webb Pearl Bailey |
| Music by | Joseph J. Lilley |
| Cinematography | Lionel Lindon |
| Edited by | LeRoy Stone |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Isn't It Romantic? is a 1948 film from Paramount Pictures, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Veronica Lake and Billy De Wolfe. Supporting actors included Mona Freeman, Richard Webb and Pearl Bailey. Although it takes its title from a 1932 song by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, it is based on a novel called Gather Ye Rosebuds by Jeannette C. Nolan.
The plot of Isn't It Romantic? is set in Indiana after the Civil War and is about three daughters courted by three young men.
Major Euclid Cameron (Roland Culver), an officer of the Southern Army during the Civil War, writes his memoirs about the hardships of battle right after the war. It is set in Indiana, 1910, and the Major's finances are not in order. Cameron's daughters, Candy (Veronica Lake), Susie (Mona Freeman) and Rose (Mary Hatcher), urge him to get a job so they can pay the family's debts. The strongheaded Major refuses, taking pride in the fact that no Cameron has ever had a decent job. He talks himself out of a job offer from a banker in town, Clarissa Thayer (Kathryn Givney), a single woman who has always found him attractive.
The romantic Candy is in town with her fiancé Horace Frazier (Billy De Wolfe), but her flirtatious behaviour angers Horace. Candy's talking to complete strangers leads her into the clutches of swindler Richard "Rick" Brannon (Patric Knowles). Horace believes he recalls Rick from his days at music school back in the day, and invites him to the engagement party for Cameron's daughter Rose and Ben Logan (Richard Webb), the son of Judge Thomas Logan (Charles Evans). The Judge and the Major are old friends, and at the party they start arguing about the Civil War. At the party, Rick flirts with Rose in front of everyone, and the party breaks up when a fight starts between Rose and Ben.
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