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.
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]
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]