It All Came True

It All Came True (1940)

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After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.

Date of release
1940-04-06
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance
Director
Lewis Seiler

Casting

Interesting facts

It All Came True is a 1940 American musical comedy crime film starring Ann Sheridan as a fledgling singer and Humphrey Bogart, who was third-billed on movie posters, as a gangster who hides from the police in a boarding house. It is based on the Louis Bromfield novel Better Than Life. Sheridan introduced the hit song "Angel in Disguise". The picture was produced by Mark Hellinger and directed by Lewis Seiler. The cast also featured Jeffrey Lynn as the leading man, Zasu Pitts, and Una O'Connor.

Production

The film was based on a novella by Louis Bromfield. According to producer David Lewis, "It was written by a fine author well enough to rise above its banalities. Casey Robinson had long wanted to do it, and I thought it way above most of the material on tap, and so we were given a green light to proceed. We did the script with a very light touch in keeping with Bromfield’s story. It emerged a charming little piece."

Lewis always considered Anne Sheridan for the lead. George Raft and John Garfield were offered the male lead prior to Bogart taking the part. According to Lewis, Bogart wanted to play the role as he was friends with Bromfield; the actor persuaded Raft to drop out by saying the part was beneath him.

Lewis wrote "Unfortunately, the film was assigned to director Lewis Seiler, who had done many Warner pictures. He was a heavy-handed director, somewhat dense though amiable. I hated every foot he shot. Without knowing better, he was vulgarizing the whole thing, but he was a good Warner boy and I couldn’t budge the front office. " During filming Lewis was assigned to a remake of One Way Passage.

Years later, Warners re-issued the movie with refilmed opening credits giving Bogart top billing above Sheridan. As this is the version currently airing on Turner Classic Movies, it can be presumed that the original titles have not survived.

During filming Lewis was assigned off the film to Til We Meet Again and that film's producer Mark Hellinger was put on It All Came True.

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