---
title: 'It Started with Eve (1941)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Henry Koster'
released: '1941-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 90
genres:
  - 'Music'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/it-started-with-eve-1941'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033766/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# It Started with Eve (1941)

1941 · 90 min · Music, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

It Started with Eve is a 1941 American musical romantic comedy film starring Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, and Robert Cummings. Directed by Henry Koster, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Music Score. The film is considered by some critics to be Durbin's best film, and the last in which she worked with the producer and director who groomed her for stardom. It Started with Eve was remade in 1964 as I'd Rather Be Rich.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Henry Koster](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-koster)
- **Screenplay:** [Norman Krasna](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-krasna)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Hans J. Salter](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-j-salter)
- **Producer:** [Joe Pasternak](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-pasternak)
- **Director of Photography:** [Rudolph Maté](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolph-mate)
- **Editor:** [Bernard W. Burton](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-w-burton)

## Cast

- [Charles Pearce Coleman](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-pearce-coleman)
- [Walter Catlett](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-catlett)
- [Charles Laughton](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-laughton)
- [Deanna Durbin](https://cinepixo.com/people/deanna-durbin)
- [Nora Cecil](https://cinepixo.com/people/nora-cecil)
- [Paul Porcasi](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-porcasi)
- [Rosalind Ivan](https://cinepixo.com/people/rosalind-ivan)
- [Robert Cummings](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-cummings)
- [Edmund Mortimer](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-mortimer)
- [Charles C. Coleman](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-c-coleman)
- [Marie McDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-mcdonald)
- [James Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-ford)
- [Clara Blandick](https://cinepixo.com/people/clara-blandick)
- [Catherine Doucet](https://cinepixo.com/people/catherine-doucet)
- [Guy Kibbee](https://cinepixo.com/people/guy-kibbee)

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