It Started with Eve
1941 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 1,931 VOTES · DIR. Henry Koster
Overview
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,289 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:39 Watch it! Wet print! Copy.
00:05:06 It's not really fishing, it's kind of big-game hunting.
00:08:05 Thank you. I'm awfully sorry. Miss Gloria Pennington.!
00:12:22 Don't you spoil him too.
00:17:18 Why, Jonathan, how do you feel? Hungry.
00:20:22 There are eight million people in this city that don't care whether I ever sing another note in my life.
00:23:36 Really? Charming language.
00:26:43 - Well, good-bye, young lady. - Good-bye, Bishop.
00:30:04 I won't inhale. Nope. Nothing doing.
00:33:01 Could you hear it from here? It's much too far. It's downstairs.
00:38:43 You get back to bed! Where are the nurses? Any nurse.
00:43:24 That's Roberts, my butler. What's that he's got in his mouth?
00:46:11 They want you to kill 'em Saturday night, honey.
00:49:17 That's not as easy as you think. I don't know anybody with musical connections.
00:53:11 "Imitation of a dictator." It's true. It's me all over.
00:57:29 Que los traigo bonitos
01:01:43 But I've got to expect it, though, at my time of life.
01:05:56 Now, let me see. Yes.
01:09:38 I don't ever wanna see you again! That's all!
01:13:29 I was afraid you meant what you said on the phone.
01:18:33 Yes, this is ridiculous, isn't it?
01:21:41 Because it reminds me of Dr. Harvey and it makes me hate him...
01:26:48 I'm going to put you to bed! Where did she go?
50:00:00 you'd expect me to give up two weeks of my vacation?
Cast & Characters
Deanna Durbin
Anne Terry
Charles Laughton
Jonathan Reynolds
Robert Cummings
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.
Guy Kibbee
Bishop Maxwell
Margaret Tallichet
Gloria Pennington
Catherine Doucet
Mrs. Pennington
Walter Catlett
Doctor Harvey
Charles Coleman
Roberts
Leonard Elliott
Reverend Henry Stebbins
Irving Bacon
Raven
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,289
Dialogue density14.3 lines / min
First line00:01:39
Final line50:00:00
Production Record
DirectorHenry Koster
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,931