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Film, Video Blame it on love

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About this Item

Title

  • Blame it on love

Summary

  • A wealthy manufacturing heir elopes with a nightclub singer who can't cook. When the couple break up, the singer goes to cooking school, learns how to use Hotpoint brand appliances, and prepares the perfect meal for her estranged husband. They reunite and the accomplished cook earns the respect of her formerly unsupportive in-laws.

Names

  • Fox, Wallace, 1895-1958, film director
  • Gibney, Morgan, 1901-1968, screenwriter
  • Marsh, Joan, 1913-2000, actor
  • King, John, 1909 July 11-1987, actor
  • Loftus, Cecilia, 1876-1943, actor
  • Herman, Al, 1887-1967, actor
  • Wallace, Morgan, 1881-1953, actor
  • Forbes, Mary, 1883-1974, actor
  • Walker, Nella, 1886-1971, actor
  • Faylen, Frank, 1905-1985, actor
  • Darien, Frank, 1876-1955, actor
  • Snyder, William E., 1901-1984, cinematographer
  • LeBorg, Reginald, contributor
  • Hatley, Marvin, 1905-1986, composer
  • Edison General Electric Appliance Company, sponsor, film distributor
  • Wilding Picture Productions, production company

Created / Published

  • United States : [Edison General Electric Appliance Co.], 1940.

Headings

  • -  Household appliances, Electric
  • -  Electric cooking
  • -  Housewives
  • -  Man-woman relationships

Genre

  • Sponsored films
  • Fiction films
  • Feature films

Notes

  • -  Joan Marsh, John King, Cecilia Loftus, Al Herman, Morgan Wallace, Mary Forbes, Nella Walker, Frank Faylen, Frank Darien.
  • -  Photographer, William Snyder ; musical sequences directed by Reginald Leborg ; composer, Marvin Hatley.
  • -  Produced in the Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California.
  • -  Summary adapted from The field guide to sponsored films.
  • -  Sources used: Prelinger, R. The field guide to sponsored films, 2006, p. 13; Film daily yearbook of motion pictures, 1940, p. 59 viewed online via Media History Digital Library.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (approximately 47 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

  • MacDonald (J. Fred and Leslie W.) Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024601078

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Fox, Wallace, Film Director, Morgan Gibney, Joan Marsh, John King, Cecilia Loftus, Al Herman, Morgan Wallace, et al. Blame It on Love. composeds by Hatley, Marvin, , produceds by Wilding Picture Productionsuction Company [United States: Edison General Electric Appliance Co, 1940] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024601078/.

APA citation style:

Fox, W., Gibney, M., Marsh, J., King, J., Loftus, C., Herman, A. [...] Edison General Electric Appliance Company, S. (1940) Blame It on Love. Hatley, M., comp, , Wilding Picture Productionsuction Company, prod [United States: Edison General Electric Appliance Co] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024601078/.

MLA citation style:

Fox, Wallace, Film Director, et al. Blame It on Love. comp by Hatley, Marvin, , prod by Wilding Picture Productionsuction Company [United States: Edison General Electric Appliance Co, 1940] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024601078/>.