Ann Sheridan Dominates “It All Came True”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21819, 23 November 1940, Page 10

Ann Sheridan Dominates “It All Came True”

A beautiful, hot-tempered girl, a sensitive young composer, and a gangster in an old brownstone boarding house full of eccentric old people, are the essentials of "It All Came True.” the Louis Bromfield story. In the film version of it the girl is Ann Sheridan who sings two numbers, nances the rhumba and dominates the film. “It All Came True” tells the tale of a group of people living in a New York boarding house. They cling faithfully to the fond memories of their past as an escape from the reality, of the present. Maggie Ryan and Mrs Taylor inherit a Victorian home which they convert into a boarding house, the complacent atmosphere of which Is disturbed when Maggie’s daughter Sal, played by Miss Sheridan, returns after an unsuccessful attempt to crash the entertainment world. The following day Mrs Taylor’s son, Tommy (Jeffrey Lynn) comes home after an absence of five years, with Humphrey Bogart, as a gangster named “Chips” Maguire, who forces Tommy to let him use the house as a hideout.