Over the Moon (film)

Over the Moon
Directed by	Thornton Freeland William K. Howard (uncredited)
Produced by	Alexander Korda
Written by	Lajos Bíró Robert E. Sherwood
Screenplay by	Alec Coppel Robert E. Sherwood Arthur Wimperis
Starring	Merle Oberon Rex Harrison Ursula Jeans
Music by	Mischa Spoliansky
Cinematography	Harry Stradling Sr.
Edited by	Pat Wooley
Production company	London Film Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	October 19, 1939 (1939-10-19) UK
Running time	85 min.
Country	England
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.

Plot summary

Jane Benson (Merle Oberon) is a lowly Yorkshire girl who lives simply, caring for her elderly, ailing uncle and not wishing for anything more. She does take a fancy, however, to the local doctor, Freddie Jarvis (Rex Harrison), and she persuades him to marry her. Soon she finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds.

Cast

Merle Oberon as Jane Benson
Rex Harrison as Dr. Freddie Jarvis
Ursula Jeans as Millie
Robert Douglas as John Flight
Louis Borel as Pietro
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
Bruce Winston as Director of Clinic

References

External links

Over the Moon at the Internet Movie Database
Over the Moon at AllMovie
Over the Moon at the TCM Movie Database

Films directed by William K. Howard

The Border Legion (1924)
The Thundering Herd (1925)
Code of the West (1925)
The Light of Western Stars (1925)
Volcano! (1926)
Gigolo (1926)
White Gold (1927)
A Ship Comes In (1928)
The Valiant (1929)
Christina (1929)
Transatlantic (1931)
Surrender (1931)
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)
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)
Johnny Come Lately (1943)
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)
Working Wives (1932)
The Way of Life (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)
The Brass Monkey (1948)
Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)

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) Tweedledum and Tweedledee (1967)

Screenplays	Over the Moon (1939) I Killed the Count (1939) Just like a Woman (1939) Smithy (1946) The Brass Monkey (1948) Woman Hater (1948) Obsession (1949) Two on the Tiles (1950) The Smart Aleck (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)

The films of Alexander Korda

As director

1910s	Watchhouse in the Carpathians (1914) The Duped Journalist (1914) Tutyu and Totyo (1914) Lea Lyon (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) Cyclame (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) Neither in Nor Out (1919) Number 111 (1919)

1920s	The Prince and the Pauper (1920) Masters of the Sea (1922) A Vanished World (1922) Samson and Delilah (1922) The Unknown Tomorrow (1923) Folly of Doubt (1924) 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)

1930s	Lilies of the Field (1930) Women Everywhere (1930) The Princess and the Plumber (1930) Die Männer um Lucie (1931) Rive gauche (1931) Marius (1931) Längtan till havet (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)

1940s	That Hamilton Woman (1941) Perfect Strangers (1945) An Ideal Husband (1947)

As producer only

1930s	Women Who Play (1932) Men of Tomorrow (1932) That Night in London (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) 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)

1940s	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) 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)

1950s	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)