Over the Moon (1939 film)

Over the Moon

Directed by	Thornton Freeland William K. Howard (uncredited)
Screenplay by	Anthony Pelissier Alec Coppel Arthur Wimperis
Story by	Lajos Bíró Robert E. Sherwood
Produced by	Alexander Korda
Starring	Merle Oberon Rex Harrison Ursula Jeans
Cinematography	Harry Stradling Sr.
Edited by	Pat Wooley
Music by	Mischa Spoliansky
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	London Film Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	19 October 1939 (1939-10-19TUK)
Running time	78 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Over the Moon is a 1939 British Technicolor comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans and Herbert Lomas.

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Plot

Jane Benson is a lowly Yorkshire girl who lives simply, caring for her elderly, ailing uncle and not wishing for anything more. She takes a fancy to local doctor Freddie Jarvis, and she persuades him to marry her. Jane soon learns that she has inherited £18 million. She wants to travel across Europe with Freddie, but he wants to stay because he is dedicated to his patients.^[1] Jane leaves for Europe without Freddie and is followed by many suitors. Back in Yorkshire, Freddie becomes notorious as the man who declined £18 million, and the infamy hampers his ability to perform serious research.^[2]

Cast

Merle Oberon as Jane Benson
Rex Harrison as Dr. Freddie Jarvis
Ursula Jeans as Millie
Robert Douglas as John Flight (credited as playing The Unknown Man)
Louis Borel as Pietro (credited as Louis Borrell)
Zena Dare as Julie
Peter Haddon as Lord Petcliffe
David Tree as Journalist
Mackenzie Ward as Guy
Elisabeth Welch as Cabaret Singer
Carl Jaffe as Michel
Herbert Lomas as Ladbrooke
Wilfred Shine as Frude
Gerald Nodin as Cartwright
Evelyn Ankers as Patient (uncredited)
Ethel Griffies as Miss Bates (uncredited)
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Dwight, the Sanitarium Spokesman (uncredited)^[3]
Andreas Malandrinos as Father on Train (uncredited)

References

^ "Over the Moon (1939)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
^ "Over the Moon - Plot Summary". IMDB. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
^ "Over the Moon - Cast and Crew". IMDB. Retrieved 27 July 2016.

External links

Over the Moon at IMDb
Over the Moon at AllMovie
Over the Moon at the TCM Movie Database
Over the Moon at the American Film Institute Catalog

Films directed by William K. Howard

Play Square (1921)
Get Your Man (1921)
What Love Will Do (1921)
Extra! Extra! (1922)
Deserted at the Altar (1922)
Captain Fly-by-Night (1922)
Lucky Dan (1922)
Let's Go (1923)
The Fourth Musketeer (1923)
Danger Ahead (1923)
The Border Legion (1924)
East of Broadway (1924)
The Thundering Herd (1925)
Code of the West (1925)
The Light of Western Stars (1925)
Red Dice (1926)
Volcano! (1926)
Gigolo (1926)
Bachelor Brides (1926)
White Gold (1927)
The Main Event (1927)
A Ship Comes In (1928)
The River Pirate (1928)
A Ship Comes In (1928)
The Valiant (1929)
Love, Live and Laugh (1929)
Sin Town (1929)
Christina (1929)
Good Intentions (1930)
Scotland Yard (1930)
Transatlantic (1931)
Surrender (1931)
Don't Bet on Women (1931)
The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)
The First Year (1932)
Sherlock Holmes (1932)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
This Side of Heaven (1934)
The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
Evelyn Prentice (1934)
Rendezvous (1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
Vanessa (1935)
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
Fire Over England (1937)
The Squeaker (1937)
Over the Moon (1939)
Back Door to Heaven (1939)
Money and the Woman (1940)
Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
'Til We Meet Again (1940)
Bullets for O'Hara (1941)
Klondike Fury (1942)
Johnny Come Lately (1943)
When the Lights Go On Again (1944)
A Guy Could Change (1946)

Films directed by Thornton Freeland

Three Live Ghosts (1929)
Be Yourself! (1930)
Whoopee! (1930)
Six Cylinder Love (1931)
The Secret Witness (1931)
The Unexpected Father (1932)
Love Affair (1932)
Week-End Marriage (1932)
They Call It Sin (1932)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
George White's Scandals (1934)
Brewster's Millions (1935)
The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
Accused (1936)
Skylarks (1936)
Jericho (1937)
Paradise for Two (1937)
Hold My Hand (1938)
Over the Moon (1939)
So This Is London (1939)
The Gang's All Here (1940)
Too Many Blondes (1941)
Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941)
Meet Me at Dawn (1947)
Brass Monkey (1948)
Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)

v t e Works by Alec Coppel
Plays	Short Circuit (1935) The Stars Foretell (1936) I Killed the Count (1937) Let’s Pretend (1938) Believe It or Not (1940) Mr Smart Guy (1941) My Friend Lester (1947) A Man About a Dog (1949) The Genius and the Goddess (1957) The Joshua Tree (1958) Oh, Captain! (1958) The Gazebo (1959) Viva Le Difference (1960) The Captain's Paradise (1961) Not in My Bed, You Don’t (1968) Cadenza (1977)
Novels	I Killed the Count (1938) A Man About a Dog (1947) Mr. Denning Drives North (1950) The Last Parable (1953) Moment to Moment (1966) Tweeldedum and Tweedledee (1967)
Screenplays	Over the Moon (1939) I Killed the Count (1939) Just like a Woman (1939) Smithy (1946) Brass Monkey (1948) Woman Hater (1948) Obsession (1949) Two on the Tiles (1950) Smart Alec (1951) No Highway in the Sky (1951) Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) The Captain's Paradise (1953) Hell Below Zero (1954) The Black Knight (1954) To Catch a Thief (1954) Appointment with a Shadow (1957) Vertigo (1958) The Gazebo (1959) Swordsman of Siena (1962) Moment to Moment (1966) The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) The Statue (1971) A Kiss Is Just a Kiss (1971)
Other Adaptations	Jo (1971)
Radio	A Rum Affair (1940) Mr Smart Guy (1941) I Killed the Count (1941) Stories from Scotland Yard (1948)

Films by Alexander Korda

As director

Watchhouse in the Carpathians (1914)
The Duped Journalist (1914)
Tutyu and Totyo (1914)
Lyon Lea (1915)
The Officer's Swordknot (1915)
White Nights (1916)
The Grandmother (1916)
Tales of the Typewriter (1916)
The Man with Two Hearts (1916)
The One Million Pound Note (1916)
Cyclamen (1916)
Struggling Hearts (1916)
The Laughing Saskia (1916)
Miska the Magnate (1916)
St. Peter's Umbrella (1917)
The Stork Caliph (1917)
Magic (1917)
Harrison and Barrison (1917)
Faun (1918)
The Man with the Golden Touch (1918)
Mary Ann (1918)
Ave Caesar! (1919)
White Rose (1919)
Yamata (1919)
Man of Gold (1919)
Neither at Home or Abroad (1919)
Number 111 (1919)
The Prince and the Pauper (1920)
Masters of the Sea (1922)
A Vanished World (1922)
Samson and Delilah (1922)
The Unknown Tomorrow (1923)
Everybody's Woman (1924)
Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)
Dancing Mad (1925)
Madame Wants No Children (1926)
A Modern Dubarry (1927)
The Stolen Bride (1927)
The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
Yellow Lily (1928)
Night Watch (1928)
Love and the Devil (1929)
The Squall (1929)
Her Private Life (1929)
Lilies of the Field (1930)
Women Everywhere (1930)
The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
The Men Around Lucy (1931)
Rive gauche (1931)
Marius (1931)
Longing for the Sea (1931)
The Golden Anchor (1932)
Service for Ladies (1932)
Wedding Rehearsal (1932)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
La dame de chez Maxim's (1933)
The Girl from Maxim's (1933)
The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
Rembrandt (1936)
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Perfect Strangers (1945)
An Ideal Husband (1947)

As producer only

Men of Tomorrow (1932)
That Night in London (1932)
Women Who Play (1932)
Strange Evidence (1933)
Counsel's Opinion (1933)
Cash (1933)
Catherine the Great (1934)
The Private Life of the Gannets (1934) (short)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Things Are Looking Up (1935)
Sanders of the River (1935)
Wharves and Strays (1935) (short)
The Ghost Goes West (1935)
Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty (1936) (short)
The Fox Hunt (1936)
Things to Come (1936)
I Stand Condemned (1936)
Men Are Not Gods (1936)
Forget Me Not (1936)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
Fire Over England (1937)
I, Claudius (1937) (unfinished)
Dark Journey (1937)
Elephant Boy (1937)
Farewell Again (1937)
Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Action for Slander (1937)
Knight Without Armour (1937)
The Squeaker (1937)
The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
Paradise for Two (1937)
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
The Drum (1938)
South Riding (1938)
The Challenge (1938)
Prison Without Bars (1938)
Q Planes (1939)
The Four Feathers (1939)
The Rebel Son (1939)
The Spy in Black (1939)
The Lion Has Wings (1939)
Over the Moon (1939)
21 Days (1940)
Conquest of the Air (1940)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Old Bill and Son (1941)
Lydia (1941)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942)
The Biter Bit (1943) (short)
The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)
A Man About the House (1947)
Mine Own Executioner (1947)
Night Beat (1948)
Anna Karenina (1948)
The Winslow Boy (1948)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
That Dangerous Age (1949)
The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)
Saints and Sinners (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
The Cure for Love (1950)
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)
The Bridge of Time (1950) (short documentary)
My Daughter Joy (1950)
State Secret (1950)
The Wooden Horse (1950)
Seven Days to Noon (1950)
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
The Wonder Kid (1951)
Mr. Denning Drives North (1952)
Outcast of the Islands (1952)
Home at Seven (1952)
Who Goes There! (1952)
Cry. the Beloved Country (1952)
Edinburgh (1952) (short documentary)
Road to Canterbury (1952) (short documentary)
The Sound Barrier (1952)
The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
The Ringer (1953)
Folly to Be Wise (1953)
Twice Upon a Time (1953)
The Captain's Paradise (1953)
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
The Man Between (1953)
The Heart of the Matter (1954)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
The Teckman Mystery (1954)
The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)
Three Cases of Murder (1955)
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
Summertime (1955)
Storm Over the Nile (1955)
Richard III (1955)
Smiley (1956)

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