Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

James Dunn was one of the finds of 1931, his performance in "Bad Girl" as a young husband trying his best to give his wife everything she needed was a revelation. He should have gone to the top but by 1934 he was suddenly in the limelight again as Shirley Temple's favourite co-star - he made three of her best films that year. "Have a Heart" shows what a sensitive heart felt actor he was, given the right material. His co-star was Jean Parker who, until she got to show her zippy, exuberant side in the late 30s, early 40s, seemed made to order for weepy sentimental heroines. Their roles in "Have a Heart" were both perfect for them even though Dunn must have felt a little "deja vu" with the names Jimmy and Sally - he had already made a picture of that name the year before. Jean Parker plays Sally who runs a children's dancing class (cute Juanita Quigley is the little girl who has an embarrassing accident). Her fiancé Joe (Paul Page) is already showing his true colors when he forbids her from continuing on with her classes once they are married. The light hearted skylarking at their engagement party takes a shocking turn when Sally falls from a balcony and Joe, being the prince he is, can't wait to ditch her especially when he visits her in hospital and sees she has to wear an orthopaedic boot!!!Back at the flat she settles down to life as a doll maker and repairer and catches the eye of the local "Have a Heart" ice cream man Jimmy (James Dunn). She is impressed with his winning ways with the neighbourhood kids and the fact that he hates cruelty toward animals. Of course she tries to keep her affliction from him but even when he finds out he still thinks he is the luckiest man in the world. When Jimmy is returning a car to the ice cream factory late one night he walks in on a robbery. Of course he is blamed for the theft and when Sally hands over the money she has saved for her operation hoping it will put things right with his boss he feels frustrated, thinking the chance of finding the real thief has gone. The only clue he has is a silver dollar imprint on the robber's hand.This is such a sweet lovely movie and yes, I cried heaps during it. Jean Parker was sweet without being syrupy and James Dunn bought his usual tough sensitivity to his role as the ice cream man who wanted more from life. Rounding out the cast was Paul Page, only a couple of years before he was a bland leading man, now he was perfect as a first class heel. Una Merkel was perfection as usual as Sally's loyal pal. Without her Sally wouldn't have achieved much!! Stuart Erwin was Una's hapless boyfriend, yearning to be a racketeer but settling for the police force as a step in the right direction!!

A crippled dancer and a brash ice cream man show they HAVE A HEART when they become the answer to the other's romantic dreams.This unfortunately obscure little film starts off as a lively comedy, but quickly takes a turn into very serious drama before finally settling into its final shape as a gentle love story -- with a bit of crime action thrown into the mix. The movie will be more than acceptable to those viewers looking for a soap opera with a bit of a punch.Jean Parker is terrific as the valiant young lady whose life is changed forever as the result of a terrible fall. Love finds her in the unexpected form of James Dunn, very good as the quick tempered but good natured fellow who woos her without knowing of her disability. They make a fine on-screen team, each character filling the void in the other's life.Pretty Una Merkel, the Southern belle whose prickly presence perked up many a film project in the 1930's, shines as Parker's tart-tongued friend. Laid-back Stuart Erwin is funny as her card-cheating boyfriend. Samuel S. Hinds plays Miss Parker's kindly doctor.Movie mavens will recognize an uncredited Edward Brophy as Dunn's pal at the ice cream factory.

I absolutely love early 1930s movies, but this one I thought was just awful. It has a quality of having been made up as the actors went along (perhaps it was made up as the writers went along!), and doesn't realistically address the problem of a disability, even for 1934. Jean Parker has a speech pattern similar to Una Merkel's, and in appearance reminds me of Mary Martin, but somehow her personality lacks the spark that would have made me care more about her character's plight. I've always loved Una Merkel, and the film would have been deadly without her, but this wasn't anyone's best performance. It certainly is a cornucopia of character actors, though, as an earlier commenter said.

Thanks to Turner Classic Movies I saw this film today. Una Merkel is billed below Jean Parker, but of course she steal the show without even trying. She's just that kind of actress. Jean Parker plays her younger sister and they sound amazingly alike in accent and inflection. I checked on IMDb to see if they were really sisters. They are not. Good performances by everyone, including James Dunn as Jean's Love Interest and Stuart Erwin, who, along with Una, have the best lines in every scene. Besides the credited actors, the movie is full of great supporting actors you'll instantly recognize: Edward Brophy, Tom Dugan, and Pat Flaherty, among others.