Do You Love Me (film)
| Do You Love Me | |
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| Directed by | Gregory Ratoff |
| Screenplay by | Robert Ellis Helen Logan Dorothy Bennett (additional dialogue) Frank Gabrielson (uncredited) |
| Story by | Bert Granet |
| Produced by | George Jessel |
| Starring | Maureen O'Hara Dick Haymes Harry James |
| Cinematography | Edward Cronjager |
| Edited by | Robert L. Simpson |
| Music by | David Buttolph |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,550,000[1] |
| Box office | $3 million (US rentals)[2][3] |
Do You Love Me is a 1946 American Technicolor musical romance film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes and Reginald Gardiner .[4][5] The film also features band leader Harry James and his Orchestra. It was produced and distributed by 20th Century-Fox. Betty Grable makes a cameo at the end of the film. At the time Harry James was married to contracted Fox star Betty Grable.
Plot
[edit]Jimmy Hale, a successful singer, chases Katharine "Kitten" Hilliard, a prim music-school dean who transforms herself into a desirable, sophisticated lady after traveling to the big city. Trumpeter and bandleader Barry Clayton also pursues Katharine.[6]
Cast
[edit]- Maureen O'Hara as Katherine 'Kitten' Hilliard
- Dick Haymes as Jimmy Hale
- Harry James as Barry Clayton
- Reginald Gardiner as Herbert Benham
- Richard Gaines as Ralph Wainwright
- Stanley Prager as Jay Dilly
- Betty Grable as Barry's Fan in Taxi
Production
[edit]The film was known also known as Kitten on the Keys and budgeted at $1.8 million. Zanuck disliked the footage and ordered reshoots that cost an extra $750,000.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "'Keys' jangled Zanuck". Variety. August 22, 1945. p. 3.
- ^ "60 Top Grossers of 1946", Variety 8 January 1947 p8
- ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 221
- ^ "Do You Love Me (1946 film)". FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- ^ "Do You Love Me". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- ^ "Turner Classic Movies - TCM.com". Retrieved July 6, 2016.