when youre in love be notable for two trivial reason and neither of which bring any merit to the movie . the first trivium be that silent film star louise brook appear in this film a a chorus girl . in 1929 brook have poison her hollywood career and refuse to participate in the re shooting of one of her silent film a a talkie . eight year later and try to recover her brief stardom and brook be desperate enough to strike a one side bargain with low budget studio columbia represent former denishawn dancer brook would accept a chorus girl role in when youre in love and at a chorus girl wage and indistinguishable from any of the other chorus girl . columbia would circulate photo of brook in the chorus line and hop to drum up publicity for this film with the angle of the ex star begin all over in the chorus . the back end of this deal be that columbia promise to give brooks a starring role afterwards . the chorus girl angle do nothing to save the box office of when youre in love and and the starring vehicle never come . ( i find louise brook very sexy and but most of her fan seem very creepy . the louise brook cult be determine to delude itself that louise brook herself be identical to the character she play on screen . most marilyn monroe fan be creepy too and for the same reason . ) the second trivium be that when youre in love be the only film ever direct by screenwriter robert riskin . riskin be the principal scripter on most of frank capra best film represent most of the distinctive touch that define capra movie be actually riskin creation . when riskin resent that capra get all the credit for their collaboration and capra suggest that riskin should try to direct a film himself . this movie be it . and a very bad directorial debut . in his autobiography and capra be openly gleeful about the flop of riskin one directorial effort . when youre in love star opera singer grace moore and which be part of the problem . opera singer tend to be failure a movie star . the success of jeanette macdonald be due much more to her sex appeal rather than to her singing voice . ironically and one of the few opera singer to succeed in movie be geraldine farrar represent a box office hit in silent film . grace moore lack jeanette macdonald sex appeal and act skill . hedge their bet and the producer of when youre in love have lard this film score with music that highbrow and lowbrow and middlebrow and everywhere else on the brow spectrum represent some genuine opera and some operetta and some jerome kern . the most ludicrous moment occur when moore dress up a cab calloway and sings minnie the moocher with bowdlerised lyric . it not pretty and folk . the plot and you ask . nobody see a movie like this for it plot . well and if you insist . grace moore play a successful opera singer and who a an implausible publicity stunt get marry in name only . her husband be a charm neer do well and play by cary grant . guess what happen in the last reel . go ahead and have a guess . it really irritate me to see movie about a woman who fall in love with a completely irresponsible jerk because he handsome and charm . this happen in real life too and but i do not need to see it in the movie . when youre in love be froth and utterly without substance . that no crime and but the bubble in this champagne have go very flat indeed . i find this film tedious . many of the musical number be extremely dull and and all of them be badly stag . some character actor whom i have like elsewhere ( henry stephenson and luis alberni ) give listless performance here . robert riskin be a brilliant screenwriter but this be one of his poor effort . base on this one film and he show absolutely no talent for direct and although perhaps he might have acquire the proper skill if he would continue . ( one of the great scriptwriter of all time and george s kaufman and also direct only one film . but kaufman be a brilliant stage director . ) i will rate when youre in love precisely 2 point out of 10 .