Jean Parker and James Dunn are the leads in this MGM romance, about a crippled dancer who hides her disability from a prospective suitor, but the real stars of the show were behind the camera. As was Dunn (then popular for his roles in several Shirley Temple films), director David Butler was borrowed from Fox, where he had helmed the 1930 fantasy Just Imagine. Conceived as a musical, Have a Heart (1934) began with an original story by songwriter Buddy DeSylva, composer of such American standards as "California, Here I Come" and "The Best Things in Life Are Free," and later a cofounder of Capitol Records. "Singing in the Rain" composers Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed were retained to contribute a song, "A Little Ray of Sunshine," but Have a Heart went into general release as a tuneless romantic comedy, with script contributions from the future Wizard of Oz (1939) team of Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. Cinematographer James Wong Howe was well into a distinguished career with nine Academy Award nominations awaiting him, and Oscars for The Rose Tattoo (1955) and Hud (1963). David Butler later directed Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in their seminal "road picture" Road to Morocco (1942).