Do You Love Me (film)

1946 film by Gregory Ratoff

  • May 17, 1946 (1946-05-17)
Running time
91 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$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

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

  • 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

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

  1. ^ a b "'Keys' jangled Zanuck". Variety. August 22, 1945. p. 3.
  2. ^ "60 Top Grossers of 1946", Variety 8 January 1947 p8
  3. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 221
  4. ^ "Do You Love Me (1946 film)". FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  5. ^ "Do You Love Me". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  6. ^ "Turner Classic Movies - TCM.com". Retrieved July 6, 2016.
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