I'll Take Romance (film)

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I'll Take Romance is a 1937 American romantic musical film directed by Edward H. Griffith, starring Grace Moore, Melvyn Douglas, Helen Westley, Stuart Erwin and Margaret Hamilton.^[1]

An opera manager (Melvyn Douglas) tries to woo a contract-breaking soprano (Grace Moore) into performing in Buenos Aires.

• Grace Moore as Elsa Terry
• Melvyn Douglas as James Guthrie
• Helen Westley as Madame Della aka Madella
• Stuart Erwin as 'Pancho' Brown
• Margaret Hamilton as Margot
• Walter Kingsford as William Kane
• Richard Carle as Rudi

• Songs and arias performed by Grace Moore
  • I'll Take Romance (music by Ben Oakland, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
  • Gavotte (Manon, music by Jules Massenet, lyrics by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille)
  • Drinking Song (La traviata, music by Giuseppe Verdi, lyrics by Francesco Maria Piave)
  • First Act Duet (Madama Butterfly, music by Giacomo Puccini, lyrics by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica)

• Other Songs
  • Quintet and Finale (Martha, music by Friedrich von Flotow, lyrics by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese
  • She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain (Traditional)
  • 'A Frangesa! (music and Italian lyrics by Pasquale Mario Costa, English lyrics by Milton Drake)

• I'll Take Romance at IMDb
• I'll Take Romance at AllMovie

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