Mad About Music (1938)

Taking a break from watching latest movies in Multiplex,which may turn out boring and you may doze off in between,I decided to watch some classics I had for a long time."Mad about Music" turned out to be refreshing with Deanna Durbin and her classmates singing "I love To Whistle" just after the rolling titles.Film is really pleasant and Deanna looks utmost beautiful and effortless in her singing.Deanna Durbin left us on 20 th April 2013.

Deanna who plays Gloria Harkinson makes up wild stories about her non-existent father and later on in the movie she speaks umpteenth lies to hide this one lie. Her mother played by Gail Patrick
is glamorous actress in Hollywood who has to hide that she has a fourteen year old daughter studying in a boarding school in Switzerland.Since Deanna had told this fib that her Father is a explorer cum hunter she asks her mother to ship various trophies of a hunt like ivory tusk.I was so surprised by such amount of lies told by everybody,I don't think in any other movie I have seen people lie so much.

A boy named Tommy played by Jackie Moran {Tom Sawyer (1938), Since You Went Away (1944)} takes a liking to Deanna and ask her for a date at a coffee shop.She lies to the head-mistress that her father is coming to meet her and to let her go.Now her class-mates follow her to the coffee shop where the boy gives her a bouquet.Her friend Olga { Marcia Mae Jones} comes and tell Deanna that her classmates have followed her to see her father on insistence of Felice {Helen Parrish}Felice is convinced that its all a lie a cock and bull story.

From there she goes to railway station to meet her father who is non-existent and not coming.When the train arrives she hand the bouquet that her boy-friend gave to the person who seems most like her hunter father,Richard Todd played by Herbert Marshall who actually is a Music Composer ,saying its a Swiss custom to welcome guests.And later on accompanies this man and his secretary to his hotel just to convince her friends.