Do You Love Me (film) explained

Do You Love Me
Director:Gregory Ratoff
Producer:George Jessel
Screenplay:Robert Ellis
Helen Logan
Dorothy Bennett (additional dialogue)
Frank Gabrielson (uncredited)
Story:Bert Granet
Starring:Maureen O'Hara
Dick Haymes
Harry James
Music:David Buttolph
Cinematography:Edward Cronjager
Editing:Robert L. Simpson
Studio:20th Century-Fox
Distributor:20th Century-Fox
Runtime:91 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English
Budget:$2,550,000[1]
Gross:$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

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]

Notes and References

  1. 'Keys' jangled Zanuck. Variety. 3. 22 August 1945.
  2. https://archive.org/stream/variety165-1947-01#page/n54/mode/1up "60 Top Grossers of 1946", Variety 8 January 1947 p8
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&dq=aubrey+solomon+20th+century+fox&pg=PA212 Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 221
  4. Web site: Do You Love Me (1946 film). FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com. 21 December 2015.
  5. Web site: Do You Love Me. AFI. afi.com. 21 December 2015.
  6. Web site: Turner Classic Movies - TCM.com. 6 July 2016.