I Dream Too Much

Directed by John Cromwell. With Lily Pons, Henry Fonda, Eric Blore, Osgood Perkins. Jonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and does the cooking and cleaning. To get his music published, Annette takes it to Paul and he is won over - by her voice and not the music. So he manages her career and she becomes a star as an opera singer ...

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I Dream Too Much is a film directed by John Cromwell with Lily Pons, Henry Fonda, Eric Blore, Osgood Perkins, .... Year: 1935. Original title: I Dream Too Much. Synopsis: Jonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and does the ...

I Dream Too Much - Opera student Annette Monard (Lily Pons) accidentally meets American composer Jonathan Street (Henry Fonda), and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled...

Overview of I Dream Too Much, 1935, directed by John Cromwell, with Lily Pons, Henry Fonda, Eric Blore, at Turner Classic Movies

If Columbia could make an acceptable movie star out of opera-diva Grace Moore, then RKO Radio could do the same with Lily Pons. At least that was producer Pandro S. Berman's reasoning when he cast Pons in the 1935 musical romance I Dream too Much. The actress plays Annette, a rural French musical student who marries struggling American composer Jonathan (Henry Fonda). Possessed of a splendid singing voice, our heroine rises to fame on the opera stage, while poor Jonathan continues struggling, supporting himself as a tour guide. Annette eventually saves her marriage by transforming her husband's

Lily Pons makes a graceful cinema début in the pleasant if somewhat minor operatic comedy called "I Dream Too Much," which the Radio City Music Hall presented to its holiday audiences yesterday. The Gallic coloratura fortifies her brilliant singing with an engaging quality of bird-like charm and a sense of what her countrymen happily call joie de vivre. When her film threatens to perish in the languors of dramatic anemia, she rushes charmingly to the rescue with a burst of intoxicating song. Designed pretty candidly as a vehicle for Miss Pons, "I Dream Too Much" suffers from inaction and a limited sense of humor. But it is amiably managed, admirably played, and provides a reasonably painless setting for the gifted soprano.