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Nine years ago in Vienna a stocky young tenor with wonderful teeth arched his stout chest into the high notes of a Korngold opera, The Miracle Of Heliane. Since then Jan Kiepura has risen to fame in European screen operettas...
This time he is a singing fisherman who throws an egg at Tenor Alan Mowbray because he does not like his voice. Hiding from the carabinièri under the terrace of a big house, he hears Gladys Swarthout rehearsing a scene from Romeo & Juliet. Next day when Kiepura is in jail because of the egg. Miss Swarthout brings a composer (Philip Merivale) to hear him sing. The composer inspires so much gratitude in Kiepura by giving him a job that Kiepura later leaves the company when he finds the composer is also in love with Miss Swarthout. The complications...
Designed primarily as a vehicle for Jan Kiepura's tenor voice, Laemmle's latest production "Be Mine Tonight", combines serious opera and gay frivolity into a highly entertaining unit; but either Kiepura's singing or Magda Snyder's levity alone would be amusing...
...story, "Be Mine Tonight" will be successful because of Magda Snyder's slyness; but as an operetta it will be a sure hit because of Jan Kiepura's tenor voice, which is heard often in the more familiar operas. His next picture "Blossom Time" soon to be released, ought to be worth seeing -- and hearing...
Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura, who sang with the Chicago Civic Opera two years ago, has immense assurance and an infectious smile which are acceptable substitutes for acting ability. His voice, which loses none of its quality in recording, is so pleasant that you do not object to almost incessant renditions of the picture's otherwise unremarkable waltz theme song. Be Mine Tonight was first made in German by UFA. Gaumont-British sent a supporting cast to Berlin to remake it in English. Universal liked the British version-directed by Russian Director Anatole Litwak-enough...