Give Me Your Heart (film) explained

Give Me Your Heart (film)
Director:	Archie Mayo
Producer:	Robert Lord Hal B. Wallis
Screenplay:	Casey Robinson
Starring:	Kay Francis George Brent Roland Young Patric Knowles
Music:	Heinz Roemheld
Cinematography:	Sidney Hickox
Editing:	James Gibbon
Studio:	Warner Bros.
Distributor:	Warner Bros.
Runtime:	98 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

Give Me Your Heart was a 1936 American drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Kay Francis, George Brent and Roland Young. It was a melodrama based on the 1934 London play Sweet Aloes, by Joyce Carey.^[1] Leading lady Kay Francis, playing the familiar role of a self-sacrificing mother, had a difficult working relationship with the director throughout the making of the film.^[2] ^[3]

Plot

A young Englishwoman has a relationship with a married man.

Main cast

Kay Francis as Belinda Warren
George Brent as Jim Baker
Roland Young as Tubbs Barrow
Patric Knowles as Robert Melford
Henry Stephenson as Edward - Lord Farrington
Frieda Inescort as Rosamond Melford
Helen Flint as Dr. Florence Cudahy
Halliwell Hobbes as Oliver
Zeffie Tilbury as Esther Warren
Elspeth Dudgeon as Alice Dodd

Notes and References

Alan Goble The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film 1999 Page 780-"GIVE ME YOUR HEART 1936 d: Archie Mayo. USA., Sweet Aloes, Jay Mallory, London 1934, Play
Daniel Bubbeo The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, with Filmographies for Each 2001 "Her next film, Give Me Your Heart (1936), playing her umpteenth self-sacrificing mother, was a less expensive film to mount, but still was responsible for red ink on Warners' ledgers. Through filming of Give Me Your Heart, Kay had a stormy relationship with director Archie Mayo, whom she felt did not have a good grip on the material."
Lynn Kear, John Rossman Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career 2006 Page 92 "Give Me Your Heart was a melodrama, for sure —with George Brent again— but done well, and Kay's performance rang true. Though she.. [photo, caption Even Kay was dismayed by this outfit from Give Me Your Heart ]".